The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change: 64 (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics) - Tapa blanda

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Spruyt, Hendrik

 
9780691029108: The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change: 64 (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
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ISBN 10: 0691029105 ISBN 13: 9780691029108
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1996

Sinopsis

The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical development. Hendrik Spruyt argues that there was nothing inevitable about the rise of the state system, however. Examining the competing institutions that arose during the decline of feudalism--among them urban leagues, independent communes, city states, and sovereign monarchies--Spruyt disposes of the familiar claim that the superior size and war-making ability of the sovereign nation-state made it the natural successor to the feudal system.


The author argues that feudalism did not give way to any single successor institution in simple linear fashion. Instead, individuals created a variety of institutional forms, such as the sovereign, territorial state in France, the Hanseatic League, and the Italian city-states, in reaction to a dramatic change in the medieval economic environment. Only in a subsequent selective phase of institutional evolution did sovereign, territorial authority prove to have significant institutional advantages over its rivals. Sovereign authority proved to be more successful in organizing domestic society and structuring external affairs. Spruyt’s interdisciplinary approach not only has important implications for change in the state system in our time, but also presents a novel analysis of the general dynamics of institutional change.

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Acerca del autor

Hendrik Spruyt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.

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"Spruyt takes on a theme that is ... of central import to political science.... A convincing demonstration that there was nothing inevitable about the triumph of the [present] form of the state."--John A. Hall, McGill University

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Princeton University Press
Año de publicación
1996
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ISBN 10 
0691029105
ISBN 13 
9780691029108
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Número de páginas
306
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