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Excavating power: in search of frontier zones and new actors

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The need exists for a new narrative concerning the relationship of the national state to the global economy. A new frontier zone is opened when a global actor encounters a national state, and there are also possibilities for actors other than the national state to participate in cross-border political dynamics.

Author: Sassen, Saskia
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2000
International aspects, Political aspects, International economic relations, National state, Nation state (Political science)

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Dyscivilization, mass extermination and the state

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This article examines whether worldwide destruction and barbarism are conditions of the modern era, or rather a completely opposite breakdown of civilization. Topics addressed include the relationship between modernization and regression within the civilizing and 'descivilizing' processes.

Author: Swaan, Abram de
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2001
World, Ethical aspects, Politics, Politics and culture, Culture, State (Political science), Civilization

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