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1	State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century more books like this by Professor Francis Fukuyama add to wishlist Argues that weak states generate large strategic problems and stresses the importance of building new nation-states. see all copies from £2.23! new only from £2.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History more books like this by Philip Bobbitt add to wishlist Following in the tradition of George Kennan and Paul Kennedy, Philip Bobbitt gives readers a brilliant study of the effects of politics and war on statehood. Timely and challenging, "The Shield of Achilles" is a major work of historical analysis. see all copies from £1.86! new only from £9.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Rogues: Two Essays on Reason more books like this by Professor Jacques Derrida, Pascale-Anne Brault (Translator), Michael Naas (Translator) add to wishlist Rogues, published in France under the title Voyous, comprises two major lectures that Derrida delivered in 2002 investigating the foundations of the sovereignty of the nation-state. The term "Etatvoyou" is the French equivalent of "rogue state," and it is this outlaw designation of certain countries by the leading global powers that Derrida ... see all copies from £14.46! new only from £14.46!
4	Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to Rule more books like this by Reinhard Bendix add to wishlist see all copies from £5.60! new only from £12.14! \| first editions
5	The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression more books like this by Harold James add to wishlist "Globalization" is here. Signified by an increasingly close economic interconnection that has led to profound political and social change around the world, the process seems irreversible. In this book, however, Harold James provides a sobering historical perspective, exploring the circumstances in which the globally integrated world of an earlier ... see all copies from £8.08! new only from £15.76! \| first editions
6	Interests, Institutions, and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations more books like this by Professor Helen V Milner add to wishlist Increasingly scholars of international relations are rallying around the idea that 'domestic politics matters'. Few, however, have articulated precisely how or why it matters. In this significant book, Helen Milner lays out the first fully developed theory of domestic politics, showing exactly how domestic politics affects international outcomes. ... see all copies from £16.81! new only from £23.87!
7	The Black Man's Burden: Africa more books like this by Basil Davidson add to wishlist Basil Davidson is among the most widely read and respected of Africa's historians. Now, in this major work, he traces the roots of Africa's independence movement and puts the continent's present-day political instability into historical perspective. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £29.25! \| first editions
8	Federalism and European Union: Building of Europe 1950-2000 more books like this by Michael Burgess, Burgess Michael add to wishlist A revisionist interpretation of the post-war evolution of European integration and the European Union (EU), this book attempts to reappraise and reassess conventional explanations of European integration. It adopts a federalist approach which supplements state-based arguments with federal political ideas, influences and strategies. By exploring ... see all copies from £27.04! new only from £27.04!
9	Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages more books like this by Dr. Saskia Sassen add to wishlist Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In "Territory, Authority, Rights", one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as 'denationalization', it continues to be shaped, channelled, and ... see all copies from £16.18! new only from £16.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict: Shadows of Modernity more books like this by Andreas Wimmer add to wishlist Andreas Wimmer argues that nationalist and ethnic politics have shaped modern societies to a far greater extent than has been acknowledged by social scientists. The modern state governs in the name of a people defined in ethnic and national terms. Democratic participation, equality before the law and protection from arbitrary violence were offered ... see all copies from £15.09! new only from £15.09!
11	International Law, Rights and Politics more books like this by Rein Mullerson add to wishlist Rein Mullerson was Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia during the country's independence struggles. This work concerns the interplay of international law and politics in the changing international system. The text analyzes events in Eastern Europe and the former USSR to throw light on broad issues including non-use of force; non-interference in ... see all copies from £1.62! new only from £5.57!
12 view cover	Plurinational Democracy: Stateless Nations in a Post-Sovereignty Era more books like this by Michael Keating add to wishlist Transnational integration and other challenges to the nation-state have deprived it of its mystique and broken the automatic link between state and nation. This has encouraged the revival of stateless nationalisms, but also provided new means for their accommodation. The author argues that these changes call for a radical rethinking of the nature ... see all copies from £10.60! new only from £27.28! \| first editions
13 view cover	Politics of Identity: Ethnic Nationalism and the State in Pakistan more books like this by Adeel Khan add to wishlist 'Excellent and compelling' - Partha Chatterjee, University of Columbia 'A provocative, passionate and stimulating new interpretation of ethnic nationalism' - Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago 'A significant study that informs us of the politics and group interests in one of the most volatile regions of the world' - Stephen Castles, ... see all copies from £10.59! new only from £12.00!
14 view cover	Beyond Belief: India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism more books like this by Srirupa Roy add to wishlist "Beyond Belief" is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation-state in 1947, Srirupa Roy explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, the colonial state into a sovereign nation-state, and subjects into citizens. ... see all copies from £11.58! new only from £11.58! \| first editions
15 view cover	The End of the Nation-State more books like this by Jean-Marie Guehenno, Victoria Elliott (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from £1.65! new only from £9.33! \| first editions
16 view cover	Taming the Sovereigns: Institutional Change in International Politics more books like this by Kalevi J Holsti, Steve Smith (Editor), Thomas J Biersteker (Editor) add to wishlist Many analysts claim that international politics has recently entered a new era, following the end of the Cold War and then the events of September 11th. In this book, Kalevi Holsti asks what we mean by 'change' in international politics. How do we identify it? How do we distinguish between significant and unimportant changes? Do we really live in ... see all copies from £14.27! new only from £21.11!
17 view cover	The Anthropology of the State: A Reader more books like this by Aradhana Sharma (Editor), Akhil Gupta (Editor) add to wishlist This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of 'the state'. It focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the ... see all copies from £21.75! new only from £23.08!
18 view cover	Postcolonial Studies and Beyond more books like this by Ania Loomba (Editor), Suvir Kaul (Editor), Antoinette Burton (Editor) add to wishlist An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to envision a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this volume assesses the current state of the field and points toward its most promising new developments. In addressing questions about the definition and relevance of postcolonial scholarship, many of the essays consider ... see all copies from £10.59! new only from £10.59! \| first editions
19 view cover	Re-Forming the State: The Politics of Privatization in Latin America and Europe more books like this by Hector E Schamis add to wishlist Compares the processes leading to market reform experiments and its political effects in Latin America and Europe see all copies from £5.60! new only from £19.92! \| first editions
20 view cover	International Relations in a Global Age: A Conceptual Challenge more books like this by Gillian Youngs add to wishlist This book investigates the ways in which state-centred approaches to international relations have limited our understanding of global, political, economic and cultural processes. By assessing a wide range of such state-centred work, Youngs identifies the challenges we must address to grasp the complexity of the contemporary world. The author ... see all copies from £3.13! new only from £15.09!
21 view cover	Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor), Stuart A Scheingold add to wishlist Sarat and Scheingold's book, Cause Lawyering, the first volume of its kind, coined the term for law as practiced by the politically motivated and those devoted to moral activism. The new collection examines cause lawyering in the global context, exploring the ways in which it is influencing and being influenced by the disaggregation of state power ... see all copies from £6.04! new only from £9.65! \| first editions
22 view cover	Institutions for the Common Good: International Protection Regimes in International Society more books like this by Steve Smith (Editor), Thomas J Biersteker (Editor), Chris Brown (Editor) add to wishlist The protection of domestic populations by international institutions is both an anomaly and an enduring practice in international relations. It is an anomaly because in a system of sovereign states, the welfare of individuals and groups falls outside traditional definitions of state interest. Yet since the evolution of the nation-state system, ... see all copies from £7.62! new only from £7.64!
23 view cover	Power and the Nation in European History more books like this by Len Scales (Editor), Oliver Zimmer (Editor) add to wishlist Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But when did the nation first become a fundamental political factor? This is a question which has ... see all copies from £16.97! new only from £18.25!
24 view cover	Theory of the Global State: Globality as an Unfinished Revolution more books like this by Martin Shaw, Steve Smith (Editor), Thomas J Biersteker (Editor) add to wishlist This ambitious study rewrites the terms of debate about globalization. Martin Shaw argues that the deepest meaning of globality is the growing sense of worldwide human commonality as a practical social force, arising from political struggle not technological change. The book focuses upon two new concepts: the unfinished global-democratic ... see all copies from £9.96! new only from £22.13!
25 view cover	Community, Solidarity and Belonging: Levels of Community and Their Normative Significance more books like this by Andrew Mason add to wishlist Despite the frequency with which the term 'community' is used, it is hard to find any comprehensive exploration of the nature and value of community. This book tries to remedy this omission whilst taking seriously the idea that community can be of different kinds and can exist at different levels, and that these levels and kinds may come into ... see all copies from £10.26! new only from £19.61! \| first editions

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