Articles by Saskia Sassen

A "small-is-beautiful" reform could begin to cure the fatal addiction to giant credit sources

A generation of neo-liberal policies feeds a serious democratic deficit inside the liberal state

The global financial system has indebted the world and exhausted itself. It has to go

The Mumbai assault belongs to a global, urban frontline. Plus: Kanishk Tharoor's closer view   

The attacks on India's metropolis augur a

The US treasury wants to save the financial system. Why not rebuild the real economy?

The unsettling effect of immigrants and refugees is a signal of their pivotal global role 

Between national and global, a new landscape of territory, authority and rights is opening

Pakistan's arc of protest leaves its most historic and political city unmoved

The global economy plus executive power equals a worldwide democratic deficit. A new leader offers a landmark response

In the United States and Europe alike, immigration policy isn't working – and the failure is most evident at the crossing-points of the rich and poor worlds, from the Mexican border to the Canary Islands, says Saskia Sassen.

Francis Fukuyama's vision falls short of recognising how the deficits in liberal democracy are being generated from within, says Saskia Sassen.

"There is a new frontier-zone today, and we are in it." Saskia Sassen sees the Danish cartoon conflict as part of the making of a new global territory where principles like free speech are being renegotiated.

The policing of global 'people flow' criminalises migrants and thus feeds the business of human trafficking. An extreme version of this trend is the experience of women, mostly from Asia and the former Soviet Union, trapped into sex slavery and prostitution. The safe lives and civil rights of people in the rich countries of the north cannot remain untouched by the enormous damage caused by such inhumane and unsustainable processes. There must be a better way.