New State Spaces

Date of Birth: 1969 Ph.D, Political Science, University of Chicago (1999); M. A. Geography, University of California Los Angeles (1995); M. A. Political Science, University of Chicago (1994); B. A. Philosophy, Yale, Summa Cum Laude (1991). Co-editor with Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod: State/Space: A Reader (Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2003). Co-editor with Nik Theodore: Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in Western Europe and North America. (Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2002). Has written numerous refereed journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, review essays; has co-guest edited two special issues of 'Antipode'; has translated work by Henri Lefbvre and Klaus Ronneberger. Forthcoming: Co-edited with Roger Keil: The Global Cities Reader (New York and London: Routledge, 2005) Proposal under consideration by Temple University Press: With Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod: The New Political Economy of Scale

• Preface ; 1. Introduction: Cities, States, and the 'Explosion of Spaces' ; 2. The Globalization Debates: Opening up to New Spaces? ; 3. The State Spatial Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis ; 4. Urban Governance and the Nationalization of State Space: Political Geographies of Spatial Keynesianism ; 5. Interlocality Competition as a State Project: Urban Locational Policy and the Rescaling of State Space ; 6. Alternative Rescaling Strategies and the Future of New State Spaces ; Bibliography ; Index

This book is a tremendous achievement. It combines a rare theoretical sophistication with informed empirical insight, and it should be read, and read closely, by anyone with an interest in state intervention and restucturing.