Neil Brenner is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University. Bob Jessop is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. Martin Jones is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.Gordon MacLeod is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Durham.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: State Space in Question 1Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeodPart I Theoretical Foundations 271 Exploration, Cartography and the Modernization of State Power 29Marcelo Escolar2 The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms and Results 53Michael Mann3 The Nation 65Nicos Poulantzas4 Space and the State 84Henri Lefebvre5 The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern World-System 101Peter J. TaylorPart II Remaking State Territorialities 1156 The State of Globalization: Towards a Theory of State Transformation 117Martin Shaw7 The Rise of East Asia and the Withering Away of the Interstate System 131Giovanni Arrighi8 The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agency in the Making of ``Embedded Neo-Liberalism'' 147Bastiaan van Apeldoorn9 The Imagined Economy: Mapping Transformations in the Contemporary State 165Angus Cameron and Ronen Palan10 Debordering the World of States: Toward a Multi-Level System in Europe and a Multi-Polity System in North America? Insights from Border Regions 185Joachim K. Blatter11 Rethinking Globalisation: Re-articulating the Spatial Scale and Temporal Horizons of Trans-Border Spaces 208Ngai-Ling SumPart III Reshaping Political Spaces 22512 Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Pre-National and Post-National Europe 227Neil Smith13 The National and the Regional: Their Autonomy Vis-aÁ-Vis the Capitalist World Crisis 239Alain LipietzGovernment in Western Europe 256Michael Keating15 Globalization Makes States: Perspectives on Local Governance in the Age of the World City 278Roger Keil16 Cities and Citizenship 296James Holston and Arjun Appadurai17 Citizenship, Territoriality and the Gendered Construction of Difference 309Nira Yuval-Davis18 Shadows and Sovereigns 326Carolyn NordstromSubject Index 344Name Index 354

"This useful and interesting reader addresses an emergent research agenda on the production and transformation of state space" Johanna Kantola, Univeristy of Bristol