Part I - Theoretical foundations 1. Exploration, cartography and the modernization of state Power - Marcelo Escolar 2. The autonomous power of the state: its origins, mechanisms and results - Michael Mann 3. The Nation - Nicos Poulantzas 4. Space and the state - Henri Lefebvre 5. The state as container: territoriality in the modern world-system - Peter J. Taylor Part II - Remaking state territorialities 6. The state of globalization: towards a theory of state transformation - Martin Shaw 7.The rise of East Asia and the withering away of the interstate system - Giovanni Arrighi 8. The struggle over European order: transnational class agency in the making of "embedded neo-liberalism" - Bastiaan van Apeldoorn 9. The imagined economy: mapping transformations in the contemporary state - Augus Cameron and Ronen Palan 10. Debordering the world of states: toward a multi-level system in European and multi-polity system in North America? insights from border regions - Joachim K. Blatter 11. Rethinking globalisation: re-articulating the spatial scale and temporal horizons of trans-border spaces - Ngai-Ling Sum Part III - Reshaping political spaces 12. Remaking scale: competition and cooperation in pre-national and post-national Europe - Neil Smith 13. The national and the regional: their autonomy vis-à-vis the capitalist world crisis - Alain Lipietz 14. The invention of regions: political restructuring and territorial government in Western Europe - Michael Keating 15. Globalization makes states: perspectives on local governance in the age of the world city - Roger Keil 16. Cities and citizenship - James Holston and Arjun Appadurai 17. Citizenship, territoriality and the gendered construction of difference - Nira Yuval-Davis 18. Shadows and sovereigns - Carolyn Nordstrom