This volume explores the transition from the old regime tomodern forms of sovereignty in the Middle East. By rereading Tocqueville's classic, "The Old Rigime and the French Revolution, through an Ottoman prism this study probes the unresolved paradoxes in his analysis of institu…
Based on archival research, this work examines the Ottoman ancien regime. The author argues that the success of the regime was due to the articulation of a complex financial network revolving around central state elite investments and an Istanbul-based and supervised banking sys…
Based on three years of archival research, this work adopts a comparative framework in its examination of one of the least understood and more paradoxical polities of modern European and Middle Eastern history: the Ottoman ancien regime. Despite a profoundly decentralized state …
Stati murati, sovranità in declino
by Brown, Wendy, Giardini, Federica, (Law professor)
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Discusses the spate of wall-building by countries around the world and considers the reasons why walls are being built in an increasingly globalized world in which threats to security come from sources that cannot be contained by brick and barbed wire.
La constelación posnacional: ensayos políticos
A staple of postwar academic writing, "nationalism" is a contentious and often unanalyzed abstraction. It is generally treated as something "imagined," "fashioned," and "disseminated, "as an idea located in the mind, in printed matter, on maps, in symbols such as flags and anthe…
Introduces the principal theorists who have shaped and defined the realist tradition. This once-dominant theory of international politics has reemerged to provide a shared foundation for understanding political theory, international relations theory, and strategic studies. The w…
Examines the confluence of political theory, strategic theory, and international relations theory. The author's essential argument is that embedded in more than two thousand years of strategic history is the premise that strategy is as much a realm for thought as action, exposed…
Examines the confluence of political theory, strategic theory, and international relations theory. The author's essential argument is that embedded in more than two thousand years of strategic history is the premise that strategy is as much a realm for thought as action, exposed…
Introduces the principal theorists who have shaped and defined the realist tradition. This once-dominant theory of international politics has reemerged to provide a shared foundation for understanding political theory, international relations theory, and strategic studies. The w…
Examines the confluence of political theory, strategic theory, and international relations theory. The author's essential argument is that embedded in more than two thousand years of strategic history is the premise that strategy is as much a realm for thought as action, exposed…
Introduces the principal theorists who have shaped and defined the realist tradition. This once-dominant theory of international politics has reemerged to provide a shared foundation for understanding political theory, international relations theory, and strategic studies. The w…
Introduces the principal theorists who have shaped and defined the realist tradition. This once-dominant theory of international politics has reemerged to provide a shared foundation for understanding political theory, international relations theory, and strategic studies. The w…