"Fukuyama begins State-Building with an account of the broad importance of "stateness." He rejects the notion that there can be a science of public administration and discusses the causes of contemporary state weakness. He ends the book with a discussion of the consequences of w…
"Fukuyama begins State-Building with an account of the broad importance of "stateness." He rejects the notion that there can be a science of public administration and discusses the causes of contemporary state weakness. He ends the book with a discussion of the consequences of w…
"Fukuyama begins State-Building with an account of the broad importance of "stateness." He rejects the notion that there can be a science of public administration and discusses the causes of contemporary state weakness. He ends the book with a discussion of the consequences of w…
Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies - ideological, economic, military, and political - The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout history. In this first volume, Michael Mann examinese interrelations between these elements from neolithi…
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.
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.
The early state
by Claessen, H. J. M., Skalník, Peter
fromNew Babylon, studies in the social sciences
The early state
by Claessen, H.J.M., (Henri Joannes Maria), Skalník, Petr, (Peter)
fromNew Babylon
The Early state
by Claessen, H. J. M., Skalník, Peter
fromNew Babylon, studies in the social sciences
The Early state
by Claessen, H. J. M., Skalník, Peter
fromNew Babylon, studies in the social sciences
"In a sweeping study of the West over the last 500 years, Bruce Porter shows the astonishing range of warfare's modernizing effects on states. Warfare unifies, rallies, and bureaucratizes both states and their populaces; warfare triggers nationalism, reform movements, and revolu…
"In a sweeping study of the West over the last 500 years, Bruce Porter shows the astonishing range of warfare's modernizing effects on states. Warfare unifies, rallies, and bureaucratizes both states and their populaces; warfare triggers nationalism, reform movements, and revolu…
"The fact that the Malaysian state has managed to maintain a relatively democratic regime, while an authoritarian regime came to power in Indonesia has never been the focus of historical and comparative analysis despite certain cultural, social, and historical affinities between…
Based on Hadhrami and British sources, as well as on fieldwork in Yemen and Indonesia, this text traces the ways in which members of the diaspora and travellers interacted with the homeland through their remittances, political initiatives and the introduction of new ideas and in…