The Second Magellanic Age: Territory and Political Authority in the 21st Century
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1995.16.0.131-149Abstract
Territorial states have evolved over several centuries into all-purpose political units, sharing sovereignty only with other states. Non-territorial forms o f political, economic, or religious organizations are increasingly performing state functions, leading to "government a la carte" and thereby to a wider sharing o f sovereignty than at any time since the medieval period. Nation-states will not disappear, indeed they will continue to increase in number; but they will be forced to share the world stage with supple and adaptable non-territorial, transnational organizations. The rise o f the territorial nation-state to become the universal standard o f political organization brought some well-known benefits (including individualism, personal rights, and economic development) and curses (including totalitarian regimes, colonialism, and destruction or assimilation o f other political forms). Technological developments, especially in electronics and telecommunications, have shifted the balance away from purely territorial political forms towards a greater role for non-territorial organizations and their associated identities and loyalties. These new forms and forces constitute a new "logic" which opens up possibilities unknown or unimagined or unattainable until now.References
Anderson, Perry. 1974. Lineages o f the Absolutist State. London: N.B.
Armstrong, John A. 1982. Nations Before Nationalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Brewin, Christopher. 1982. Sovereignty. In James Mayall, ed., The Community o f States: A Study in International Political Theory. London: George Allen and Unwin.
Carens, Joseph. 1987. Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders. The Review of Politics 49: 251-73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0034670500033817
___________. 1992. Migration and Morality: A Liberal Egalitarian Perspective. In Brian Barry and Robert E. Goodin, eds., Free Movement: Ethical Issues in the Transnational Migration o f People and o f Money. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Clark, Sir G.N. 1947. The 17th Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Drucker, Peter F. 1989. The New Realities. New York: Harper and Row.
___________. 1993. Post-Capitalist Society. New York: Harper Business.
Elkins, David J. 1980. The Sense of Place. In David J. Elkins and Richard Simeon, eds., Small Worlds: Provinces and Parties in Canadian Political Life. Toronto: Methuen.
Elkins, David J., and Richard Simeon. 1979. A Cause in Search of Its Effect, or What Does Political Culture Explain? Comparative Politics 11: 127-45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/421752
Falk, Richard. 1985. A New Paradigm for International Legal Studies: Prospects and Proposals. In Richard Falk, ed., International Law: A Contemporary Perspective. Boulder: Westview.
Gibson, William. 1984. Neuromancer. New York: Ace Books.
___________. 1986. Count Zero. New York: Ace Books.
___________. 1987. Burning Chrome. New York: Ace Books.
___________. 1988. Mona Lisa Overdrive. New York: Ace Books.
___________. 1993. Virtual Light. Toronto: Seal Books.
Gottman, Jean. 1973. The Significance o f Territory. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.
Herz, John H. 1957. Rise and Demise of the Territorial State. World Politics 9:473-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2009421
___________. 1969. The Territorial State Revisited: Reflections on the Future of the Nation-State. In James N. Rosenau, ed., International Politics and Foreign Policy: A Reader in Research and Theory. New York: The Free Press.
Jackson, Robert H. 1990. Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Third World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kennedy, Paul. 1993. Preparing for the Twenty-first Century. New York: Harper Collins.
Kratochwil, Friedrich. 1986. Of Systems, Boundaries, and Territoriality : An Inquiry into the Formation of the State System. World Politics 39:27-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2010297
McNeill, William. 1986. Polyethnicity and National Unity in World History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Ohmae, Kenichi. 1991. The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy. New York: Harper Perennial.
Reich, Robert. 1991. The Work o f Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism. New York: Knopf.
Rosenau, James N. 1990. Turbulence in World Politics: A Theory o f Change and Continuity. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Ruggie, John Gerald. 1993. Territoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations. International Organization 47:137-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020818300004732
Strayer, Joseph R. 1970. On The Medieval Origins o f the Modern State. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Tilly, Charles. 1992. Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1992. Oxford: Blackwell.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Authors who publish with American Review of Politics agree to the following terms:
The Author retains copyright in the Work, where the term “Work” shall include all digital objects that may result in subsequent electronic publication or distribution.
Upon acceptance of the Work, the author shall grant to the Publisher the right of first publication of the Work.
The Author shall grant to the Publisher and its agents the nonexclusive perpetual right and license to publish, archive, and make accessible the Work in whole or in part in all forms of media now or hereafter known under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License or its equivalent, which, for the avoidance of doubt, allows others to copy, distribute, and transmit the Work under the following conditions:
Attribution: other users must attribute the Work in the manner specified by the author as indicated on the journal Web site;
Non-Commercial: the materials may not be used for commercial purposes;
Share Alike: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
with the understanding that the above condition can be waived with permission from the Author and that where the Work or any of its elements is in the public domain under applicable law, that status is in no way affected by the license.
The Author is able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the nonexclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the Work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), as long as there is provided in the document an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post online a pre-publication manuscript (but not the Publisher’s final formatted PDF version of the Work) in institutional repositories or on their Websites prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see The Effect of Open Access). Any such posting made before acceptance and publication of the Work shall be updated upon publication to include a reference to the Publisher-assigned DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and a link to the online abstract for the final published Work in the Journal.
Upon Publisher’s request, the Author agrees to furnish promptly to Publisher, at the Author’s own expense, written evidence of the permissions, licenses, and consents for use of third-party material included within the Work, except as determined by Publisher to be covered by the principles of Fair Use.
The Author represents and warrants that:
the Work is the Author’s original work;
the Author has not transferred, and will not transfer, exclusive rights in the Work to any third party;
the Work is not pending review or under consideration by another publisher;
the Work has not previously been published;
the Work contains no misrepresentation or infringement of the Work or property of other authors or third parties; and
the Work contains no libel, invasion of privacy, or other unlawful matter.
The Author agrees to indemnify and hold Publisher harmless from Author’s breach of the representations and warranties contained in Paragraph 6 above, as well as any claim or proceeding relating to Publisher’s use and publication of any content contained in the Work, including third-party content.
