Saskia Sassen

Columbia University

Bio

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a Member of its Committee on Global Thought, which she chaired till 2015.

Featured Work

DEC 9, 2002 Article

The State and the New Geography of Power: Privatized Norm-making and De-nationalized Government Agendas

The general question organizing this paper concerns the impact of economic globalization on the territorial jurisdiction, or more theoretically, the exclusive territoriality of the nation ...