Nation-State and Global Order: A Historical Introduction to Contemporary Politics - Softcover

Opello, Walter C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555878326 ISBN 13: 9781555878320

Publisher: Lynne Rienner, 1999

Synopsis

This introduction to contemporary politics examines the historical construction of the modern territorial state. Rejecting models of linear development, the authors fuse accounts of governing practices, technological change, political economy, language and culture into a narrative of the formation of specific state forms. The modern territorial state appears not as necessary or inevitable, but as the contingent achievement of specific, historically situated political actions and agendas. Cases of state formation in England, France, Germany, Russia, the United States, Iraq, the Republic of Congo, and Japan enrich the discussion, which ranges from ancient Rome to the present. The final chapters of the book address the consequences and future of the modern state's ability to maintain order and to rule subject populations, in a world in which state sovereignty is increasingly loosened from its territorial moorings.

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About the Author

Stephen J. Rosow is professor of political science at the State University of New York, Oswego.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lynne Rienner
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555878326
• ISBN 13: 9781555878320
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280