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Author | : Philip G. Roeder |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2012-01-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1400842964 |
To date, the world can lay claim to little more than 190 sovereign independent entities recognized as nation-states, while by some estimates there may be up to eight hundred more nation-state projects underway and seven to eight thousand potential projects. Why do a few such endeavors come to fruition while most fail? Standard explanations have pointed to national awakenings, nationalist mobilizations, economic efficiency, military prowess, or intervention by the great powers. Where Nation-States Come From provides a compelling alternative account, one that incorporates an in-depth examination of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and their successor states. Philip Roeder argues that almost all successful nation-state projects have been associated with a particular political institution prior to independence: the segment-state, a jurisdiction defined by both human and territorial boundaries. Independence represents an administrative upgrade of a segment-state. Before independence, segmental institutions shape politics on the periphery of an existing sovereign state. Leaders of segment-states are thus better positioned than other proponents of nation-state endeavors to forge locally hegemonic national identities. Before independence, segmental institutions also shape the politics between the periphery and center of existing states. Leaders of segment-states are hence also more able to challenge the status quo and to induce the leaders of the existing state to concede independence. Roeder clarifies the mechanisms that link such institutions to outcomes, and demonstrates that these relationships have prevailed around the world through most of the age of nationalism.
Author | : Derek Curtis Bok |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780674292116 |
The author shows that although Americans are better off today in most areas than they were in 1960, they have performed poorly compared with other leading industrial nations.
Author | : Tom W. Bell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108548792 |
Governments across the globe have begun evolving from lumbering bureaucracies into smaller, more agile special jurisdictions - common-interest developments, special economic zones, and proprietary cites. Private providers increasingly deliver services that political authorities formerly monopolized, inspiring greater competition and efficiency, to the satisfaction of citizens-qua-consumers. These trends suggest that new networks of special jurisdictions will soon surpass nation states in the same way that networked computers replaced mainframes. In this groundbreaking work, Tom W. Bell describes the quiet revolution transforming governments from the bottom up, inside-out, worldwide, and how it will fulfill its potential to bring more freedom, peace, and prosperity to people everywhere.
Author | : Neil Davidson |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2016-05-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1608465683 |
Davidson argues that a Marxist understanding of the meaning of contemporary nation-states must begin from the inseparable connections between them.
Author | : Daniel Berkowitz |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691136041 |
The book also examines the effects of early legal systems.
Author | : Dmitry Shumsky |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2018-10-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0300241097 |
A revisionist account of Zionist history, challenging the inevitability of a one-state solution, from a bold, path-breaking young scholar The Jewish nation-state has often been thought of as Zionism’s end goal. In this bracing history of the idea of the Jewish state in modern Zionism, from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century until the establishment of the state of Israel, Dmitry Shumsky challenges this deeply rooted assumption. In doing so, he complicates the narrative of the Zionist quest for full sovereignty, provocatively showing how and why the leaders of the pre-state Zionist movement imagined, articulated and promoted theories of self-determination in Palestine either as part of a multinational Ottoman state (1882-1917), or in the framework of multinational democracy. In particular, Shumsky focuses on the writings and policies of five key Zionist leaders from the Habsburg and Russian empires in central and eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Leon Pinsker, Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha’am, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, and David Ben-Gurion to offer a very pointed critique of Zionist historiography.
Author | : John Campbell |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2024-08-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1538197812 |
Nigeria, despite being the African country of greatest strategic importance to the U.S., remains poorly understood. John Campbell explains why Nigeria is so important to understand in a world of jihadi extremism, corruption, oil conflict, and communal violence. The revised edition provides updates through the recent presidential election.
Author | : Jean-Marie Guéhenno |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780816626618 |
The first English translation of the 1993 French publication speculating on the future demise of the nation-state. Guehenno contends that economic globalization implies a future without geographical boundaries, and a restructuring of political power. He discusses the European Union as an example of this new age, and issues of ethnicity and tribalism in relation to global evolution. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Alice Teichova |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2003-05-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139435567 |
Originally published in 2003, this book addresses the rarely explored subject of the reciprocal relationships between nationalism, nation and state-building, and economic change. Analysis of the economic element in the building of nations and states cannot be confined to Europe, and therefore these diverse yet interlinked case-studies cover all continents. Authors come to contrasting conclusions, some regarding the economic factor as central, while others show that nation-states came into being before the constitution of a national market. The essays leave no doubt that the nation-state is an historical phenonemon and as such is liable to 'expiry' both through the process of globalisation and through the development of a 'cyber-society' which evades state control. By contrast, developments in southeastern Europe, the former USSR, and parts of Africa and the Far East show that building the nation-state has not run its course.
Author | : Edward J. Erler |
Publisher | : Encounter Books |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2022-03-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1641772360 |
The United States in Crisis: Citizenship, Immigration, and the Nation State argues that to preserve our freedom Americans must mount a defense of the nation state against the progressive forces who advocate for global government. The Founders of America were convinced that freedom would flourish only in a nation state. A nation state is a collection of citizens who share a commitment to the same principles. Today, the nation state is under attack by the progressive Left, who allege that it is the source of almost every evil in the world.