The Nation-State and Global Order : : A Historical Introduction to Contemporary Politics / / Stephen J. Rosow, Walter C. Opello.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Opello, Walter C.,; Rosow, Stephen J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 p.)

This engaging introduction to contemporary politics examines the historical construction of the modern territorial state. Opello and Rosow fuse accounts of governing practices, technological change, political economy, language, and culture into a narrative of the formation of specific state forms. This revised edition reinforces their central argument that the current neoliberal state does not represent a fundamentally new form, but is an attempt to reconstitute the managerial state in the context of globalization. Incorporating the most recent scholarship, other significant changes in the new edition include more emphasis on the interconnections of state and state-system, discussions of emerging forms of international violence and war, and attention to the increasingly multicultural character of states. Studies of state formation in Congo, England, France, Germany, Iraq, Japan, Nigeria, Russia, Turkey, and the U.S. enrich the discussion, which ranges from ancient Rome to the present.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- Introduction: A Historical Approach to the State and Global Order -- PART 1 THE EMERGENCE OF THE TERRITORIAL STATE -- 1 The Ancient Roman State: Imperial Rule -- 2 The Feudal “State”: Indirect Rule -- 3 The Medieval State: Territorial Sovereignty Instituted -- PART 2 THE MODERN TERRITORIAL STATE -- 4 The Absolute State: Sovereignty Unbound -- 5 The Liberal Constitutional State: Sovereignty Popularized -- 6 The Antiliberal State: Sovereignty Particularized -- 7 The Managerial State: Sovereignty Rationalized -- PART 3 GLOBALIZING THE TERRITORIAL STATE -- 8 The Colonial State: Sovereignty Expanded -- 9 The Nation-State: Sovereignty Reimagined -- 10 The Postcolonial State: Instituting Sovereignty -- PART 4 CHALLENGES TO THE STATE -- 11 The Present State of States: Sovereignty Challenged -- 12 Conclusion: A New Global Order? -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book