New State Spaces

Date of Birth: 1969 Ph.D, Political Science, University of Chicago (1999); M. A. Geography, University of California Los Angeles (1995); M. A. Political Science, University of Chicago (1994); B. A. Philosophy, Yale, Summa Cum Laude (1991). Co-editor with Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod: State/Space: A Reader (Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2003). Co-editor with Nik Theodore: Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in Western Europe and North America. (Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2002). Has written numerous refereed journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, review essays; has co-guest edited two special issues of 'Antipode'; has translated work by Henri Lefbvre and Klaus Ronneberger. Forthcoming: Co-edited with Roger Keil: The Global Cities Reader (New York and London: Routledge, 2005) Proposal under consideration by Temple University Press: With Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod: The New Political Economy of Scale

• Preface ; 1. Introduction: Cities, States, and the 'Explosion of Spaces' ; 2. The Globalization Debates: Opening up to New Spaces? ; 3. The State Spatial Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis ; 4. Urban Governance and the Nationalization of State Space: Political Geographies of Spatial Keynesianism ; 5. Interlocality Competition as a State Project: Urban Locational Policy and the Rescaling of State Space ; 6. Alternative Rescaling Strategies and the Future of New State Spaces ; Bibliography ; Index

This book demonstrates Neil Brenner as a leading scholar of political geography; it thus represents a synopsis of his work through the past decade and helps the reader to get a hold on a difficult and sometimes flimsy debate. The book and its arguments around the rescaling of governmental spaces can only be strongly recommended. Neil Brenner has written a book that is difficult to ignore for all with an interest not only in current debate on government restructuring, but also for all who follow the ongoing discussion on the construction of a new Europe - a Europe of New state spaces.