Saskia Sassen is professor of sociology at Columbia University, New York,  and at the London School of Economics. Her books include Losing Control? Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization (Columbia University Press, 1996) and The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (Princeton University Press, 2001). Her latest book is Territory, Authority, and Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press, 2006), based on a five-year project on governance and accountability in a global economy.

Recent articles

The world's major economies are shackled by their financial addiction. A tax on financial transactions could be the route to a cure, says Saskia Sassen.

A generation of neo-liberal policies continues to feed the growing power of the executive branch within the west's political systems. A mapping of this process is essential if parliaments and citizens are to create a better democracy, says Saskia Sassen.

(This article was first published on 25 June 2009)

The financial logic of neo-liberal capitalism has devoured the world and exhausted itself in the process. A new model beyond "financialisation" is needed, says Saskia Sassen.

(This article was first published on 1 April 2009)

The attacks on India's commercial capital belong to a global frontline of asymmetric urban warfare, says Saskia Sassen.

The attacks on India's commercial capital are a harbinger of a new type of urban warfare, says Saskia Sassen