The Sovereign State and Its Competitors : : An Analysis of Systems Change / / Hendrik Spruyt.
The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical development. Hendrik Spruyt argues that there was nothing inevitable about the rise of the state system, however. Examining the competing institution...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 4 maps 9 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF MAPS AND TABLES
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I: CONTINGENCY, CHOICE, AND CONSTRAINT
- CHAPTER 1 Structural Change in International Relations
- CHAPTER 2 Organizational Variation and Selection in the International System
- CHAPTER 3 Modes of Nonterritorial Organization: Feudalism, the Church, and the Holy Roman Empire
- PART II: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW MODES OF ORGANIZATION
- CHAPTER 4 The Economic Renaissance of the Late Middle Ages
- CHAPTER 5 The Rise of the Sovereign, Territorial State in Capetian France
- CHAPTER 6 The Fragmentation of the German Empire and the Rise of the Hanseatic League
- CHAPTER 7 The Development of the Italian City-states
- PART III: COMPETITION, MUTUAL EMPOWERMENT, AND CHOICE: THE ADVANTAGES OF SOVEREIGN TERRITORIALITY
- CHAPTER 8 The Victory of the Sovereign State
- PART IV: CONCLUSION
- CHAPTER 9 Character, Tempo, and Prospects for Change in the International System
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX