Description: This provocative and compelling book contends that the explosive growth of new political states is finally coming to an end. Examining the forces that determine the emergence of new nation-states, the distinguished contributors consider a rich array of specific cases from the ...
Brief description: Graham Allison is former Dean of the Kennedy School. He has authored more than a dozen books including Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis which has sold over 200,000 copies.
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"An outstanding collection of essays on the deepening of economic globalization and its impact on nationalism, state formation, and stability in the international system." --T. V. Paul, McGill University
"For 500 years, as empires fell and fiefdoms vanished, the nation-state has proven an evolutionary winner-its number soaring from 50 to 200 since World War II. Will globalization and integration, nuclear weapons and terrorism, finally do it in? For some astute and surprising answers, read this excellent collection." --Josef Joffe, publisher-editor, Die Zeit; Abramowitz Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University "This exceptionally well-researched collection of essays is the outcome of the UCLA-Harvard project on the likely creation of new states in the era of globalization. Rosecrance and Stein do an excellent job in summarizing the findings of three major conferences on the impact of globalization on the international system of states. Highly recommended." --Choice Reviews "Richard Rosecrance and Arthur Stein deal with one of the most important and understudied issues in global politics today-the question of state fragmentation and state formation. The chapters in this volume provide fresh thinking on why states exist and how they are defined." --Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History and the Last Man