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.
Brief description: Alexander Cooley is Associate Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Review Quotes: "Using a simple distinction in organizational form, Alexander Cooley explains sweeping variation in political institutions and outcomes. His analysis promises to make an important and controversial contribution to the study of not only empires and states but also global governance more generally."--Deborah Avant, George Washington University