Description:
At the dawn of the twentieth century, imperial powers controlled most of the globe. Within a few decades after World War II, many of the great empires had dissolved, and more recently, multinational polities have similarly disbanded. This process of...
Brief description: Hendrik Spruyt is Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Sovereign State and Its Competitors, which won the J. David Greenstone Award given by the History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
Review Quotes:
This insightful book explores one of the great dramas of the twentieth century: how imperial powers left their colonial territories.
-- "Foreign Affairs"