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Governance Without a State?: Policies and Politics in Areas of Limited Statehood
Thomas (Edito Risse
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Paperback. Editor(s): Risse, Thomas. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 figures, 14 tables. BIC Classification: JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
Governance discourse centers on an "ideal type" of modern statehood that exhibits full internal and external sovereignty and a legitimate monopoly on the use of force. Yet modern statehood is an anomaly, both historically and within the contemporary international system, while the condition of "limited statehood," wherein countries lack the capacity to implement central decisions and monopolize force, is the norm. Limited statehood, argue the authors in this provocative collection, is in fact a fundamental form of governance, immune to the forces of economic and political modernization. Challenging common assumptions about sovereign states and the evolution of modern statehood, ... Read more
Governance discourse centers on an "ideal type" of modern statehood that exhibits full internal and external sovereignty and a legitimate monopoly on the use of force. Yet modern statehood is an anomaly, both historically and within the contemporary international system, while the condition of "limited statehood," wherein countries lack the capacity to implement central decisions and monopolize force, is the norm. Limited statehood, argue the authors in this provocative collection, is in fact a fundamental form of governance, immune to the forces of economic and political modernization. Challenging common assumptions about sovereign states and the evolution of modern statehood, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
428g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231151214
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V9780231151214
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About Thomas (Edito Risse
Thomas Risse is professor of international politics at the Freie Universitat Berlin and director of the Collaborative Research Center's "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood" project. He has taught at Cornell University, Yale University, Stanford University, and Harvard University, as well as at the European University Institute in Florence and at the University of Konstanz in Germany.
Reviews for Governance Without a State?: Policies and Politics in Areas of Limited Statehood
For readers who think the world is steadily moving toward the Westphalian ideal of a universal system of sovereign states, this book will be a revelation. For readers who despair at the chronic problem of weak and failing states, this book contains intriguing ideas about alternative forms of stable governance. Foreign Affairs On the whole, this is an intriguing first ... Read more