Entries by Saskia Sassen from 04/2010

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

| Publicado 04.15.2010

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?

Is This the Way to Handle Immigration?

| Publicado 04.23.2010

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.