The book "Without Control?" by Saskia Sassen is a key contribution to the effort to understand the issues of territoriality and state sovereignty in an era of increasing migration flows, growing influence of multinational corporations, and private transnational legal regimes on one hand and international human rights agreements on the other.

What do the significant changes in the way businesses operate globally mean, the astonishing advances in telecommunications and computer networks with the immediate electronic transfer of funds? Why do workers protest against the outsourcing of jobs and the simultaneous rise in unemployment? What is the significance of activists' struggles against the exploitation of cheap labor in developing countries? What factors determine the flows of labor and capital today? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system? Who can impose some order?

Sassen proposes an original approach to these issues, centered around the concept of citizenship itself, which has become a central political issue in the age of globalization.