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Author Chowdhury, Arjun

Title The Myth of International Order : Why Weak States Persist and Alternatives to the State Fade Away
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
Contents Cover -- The Myth of International Order -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Incapable Yet Central -- 2. The Self-â#x80;#x8B;Undermining State -- 3. Europe as an Other -- 4. Restaging the State -- 5. Sympathy for the Neoliberal -- 6. Origins of Anarchy -- 7. Suffering Spectators of Development -- 8. Full Circle -- 9. A World of Weak States -- Bibliography
Summary This ambitious book takes on a fundamental political puzzle: most states in the international system are 'weak' states, states unable to monopolize violence or provide public goods, and yet the nation-state remains the primary organizational form for world politics. In addressing this, Arjun Chowdhury shows why states everywhere face popular dissatisfaction with their performance, and why addressing this dissatisfaction - through institutional alternatives to the state like the European Union, or through higher taxation - is so difficult
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Subject World politics.
Political stability.
Political stability.
World politics.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190686734
0190686731