As Saskia Sassen has put it, sovereignty is being “unbundled” — away from the nation-state and into new and partially global and supra national arenas and institutions that have created new rules constraining the possible actions of states. Example are the emerging international legal regimes regulating trade, investment and arbitration, the international human rights regimes, the world Trade Organisation (WTO), the European Union, environmental agreements, and so on (Sassen 1996, 1-30). The classical counterposition of sovereignty of the nation-state pursuing territorial control and the interests of transnational companies in evading control does not obtain anymore. As Hassen notes, territories are being “denationalized”, not by compulsion put by being literally farmed out to global capital as “special economic” one of free trade and investment. This implies that states are willing to construct “graduated sovereignty” over territory, economy, and also labor, as Ong notes in the context of South East Asian states as Malaysia and Indonesia (Ong 1999,214-39). But it also implies an expansion and globalization of the meaning of citizenship in several respects.