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Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as \"denationalization,\" it continues to be shaped, channeled, and enabled by institutions and networks originally developed with nations in mind, such as the rule of law and respect for private authority. This process of state making produced some of the capabilities enabling the global era. The difference is that these capabilities have become part of new organizing logics: actors other than nation-states deploy them for new purposes. Sassen builds her case by examining how three components of any society in any age--territory, authority, and rights--have changed in themselves and in their interrelationships across three major historical \"assemblages\": the medieval, the national, and the global.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The book consists of three parts. 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