Territorial Dimension Of Politics

Taylor & Francis

This book examines the dialectical tensions between global and regional interdependence and the fragmentation of humankind into territorial entities. It analyzes the territorial organization of political authority in democratic and authoritarian frameworks as well as in unitary and federal systems. > This comparative study examines the dialectical tensions between global and regional interdependence and the fragmentation of humankind into territorial entities. Political authority may remain territory-bound, but borders increasingly are penetrated by pollutants, individuals, noncentral governments in search of foreign trade and investment, and transnational corporations, as well as the traditional exchanges of trade, media, and culture. The result of these transborder flows, accelerated by new technologies, is a new variety of international relations among \u201Cperforated sovereignties.\u00E2\u20AC Dr. Duchacek analyzes the territorial organization of political authority in both d.