Description:
Reveals the varying organizational ability of powerful states to promote institutional transformation in their political peripheries and the consequences of these formations in determining pathways of postimperial extrication and state-building.
Review Quotes: "In a bold thesis applied to a wide variety of contexts, Alexander Cooley argues that the distinction between forms of hierarchy is more important for politics than state actions or ideologies. The result is a work that--challenges traditional categories of political analysis by disaggregating states, empires, and globalization into their constituent hierarchical forms."--Mark Beissinger, University of Wisconsin-Madison