During this talk Jens Wissel, a Research Fellow at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt/Main, will introduce his current research project examining the transformation of the modern nation state in the context of globalization with a particular focus on Europeanization as a regional answer to and motor of this process.

Wissel’s research looks specifically at the changes to EU migration control policy since the partial shift of responsibility for this area to the EU level with 1997’s Amsterdam Treaty. Arguing from a materialist standpoint, he proposes that the national territorial state neither disappears nor survives in an unmodified way in the globalized world, but rather becomes part of a novel configuration of the political which distributes political regulation to a multiple spaces.

Jens Wissel is spending the fall term 2006 at CCGES and York’s Department of Political Science as a Visiting Researcher traveling with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Time: 12:30 – 2:00 pm
Location: 230R York Lanes

Please RSVP to ccges@yorku.ca