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Entries by Saskia Sassen from 04/2010

Shadow Elite: What's Behind Surging Executive Power? Globalization

| Publicado 04.15.2010
Leer más: Outsourcing, Patriot Act, Janine Wedel, War on Terror, Shadow Elite, Defense Contractors, Contracting, Executive Power, Arianna's Book Club, Executive Branch, Noticias

With a new emergent phase of democratic and quasi democratic regimes, can enhanced executive power linked to globalization be reoriented to better, noncommercial goals, like climate change, global hunger, or poverty?

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Is This the Way to Handle Immigration?

| Publicado 04.23.2010
Leer más: Patriot Act, Borders, Immigration, Border Patrol, Homeland Security, Arizona Immigration Bill, Illegal Immigrants, Noticias

Some of the most powerful states in the world -- the US, the UK, France, Italy -- have increasingly reoriented large parts of their state bureaucracy to control vulnerable and powerless migrants.

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