Sven Taegil, born 1930. Historian, professor of Empirical Conflict Research at the Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences and at the University of Lund
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State of Mind Mapping Space Historical Space The Emergent State The Resilient State Transcending Space Towards an Ever Closer Union? Spatial Fragmentation Places in Networks Towards a New State of Mind
`Three leading Swedish social scientists - a geographer, a historian, and a political scientist - convincingly show that Europe's political-geographical organization into various territories and networks is not just incidental but absolutely vital to understanding its political-economic trajectory over the long term. Sensitive to how Europe has been studied as much as to their own reading of its geographical organization, the authors provide the single best account in English that I have seen of a Europe that is much more geographically complex than a singular focus on its division into national states often makes it seem. In providing a rich transdisciplinary perspective on Europe's complex geographical organization of state territories, city-based networks, regions, and supranational entities the authors succeed in throwing fresh light on the continent's political trajectory and suggesting the main directions it may take in this new century' - John A Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles