In the book titled Birth of the State, readers learn what researchers nowadays think about the rise and stabilization of the oldest statehood in the original civilization centres of the Old World - Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. The scholar takes them through essential eco…
'The Birth of the State' provides an overview of four of the most significant cultural centres in the ancient world, now in Egypt, the Persian Gulf region, India, and China.
In the book titled Birth of the State, readers learn what researchers nowadays think about the rise and stabilization of the oldest statehood in the original civilization centres of the Old World - Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. The scholar takes them through essential eco…
In 'The Origins of Political Order', Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal. This is the story of…
The early state, its alternatives and analogues
This study examines the international power plays of Renaissance and Reformation Europe. It offers an account of the international politics of the period, and also a study of the underlying forces that shaped them.