Saskia Sassen

Overview

Saskia Sassen born The Hague, Netherlands January 5, 1947. Dutch-American sociology professor and authority on globalization of cities.

Quotations

“Ten years after 9/11, we are less secure in the world, less significant for the world, and we are poorer. The War on Terror consumed vast amounts of our government’s resources, impoverished our government, rewarded many soldiers with unemployment and mental illness, and destroyed the small family enterprises of many of the men and women who served in the military, even as it gave vast riches to arms dealers and the Haliburtons of this world. The evidence suggests that opting for militarizing our response to the horror of 9/11 was a fatally flawed choice.” (Sassen: 10 Years Later; photo cgt.columbia)