ABSTRACT
Keywords: assemblages; normative; globalization; denationalization; centripetal; centrifugal; utilities; logics; liberal state; claims
INTRODUCTION: MAPPING AN ANALYTIC TERRAIN
A key yet much overlooked feature of the current period is the multiplication of a broad range of partial, often highly specialized, global assemblages of bits of territory, authority, and rights (TAR) that begin to escape the grip of national institutional frames.2 These assemblages cut across the binary of national versus global. They continue to inhabit national institutional and territorial settings but are no longer part of the national as historically constructed. They exit the national through a
^Correspondence to: Saskia Sassen, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, USA. Email: sjs2@columbia.edu
process of denationalization that may or may not lead to the formation of global arrangements.
