文档介绍：The Nation-State and Global Order
A Historical Introduction to Contemporary Politics
Walter C. Opello, Jr.
and
Stephen J. Rosow
Lynne Rienner Publishers
1999
For my daughter, Katherine
—., Jr.
To the memory of Bernard Rosow
—
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: The State and the Study of Politics
Part 1: Formation and Emergence of the Territorial State
1. The Ancient Roman State: Imperial State
2. The Feudal “State”:Indirect Rule
3. The Medieval State: Direct Rule
Part 2: Forms of the Modern Territorial State
4. The Absolutist State: Sovereignty Instituted
5. The The Liberal State: Sovereignty Universalized
6. The Antiliberal State
7. The Managerial State: Sovereignty Rationalized
Part 3: Globalizing the Territorial State
8. The Colonial State: Sovereignty Expanded
9. The Nation-State: Sovereignty Reimagined
10. The Postcolonial State: Reflexive Sovereignty
Part 4: Challenges to the State
11. The Present State of States
12. Conclusion: The Future the State
Glossary
Bibliography
Preface
The seed for this book was planted during a conversation over lunch one day in 1993. During that
conversation, the subject of the state came up. Opello, who had been trained as parativist and
behaviorist in the late 1960s and early 1970s, took the view that the state was little more than a subsystem
of the broader social system of which it was a part. He also argued for a hard-and-fast distinction between
“domestic” and “international” politics, although he recognized that certain “issue areas” transcended the
boundary of the two. Rosow, who had been trained in political philosophy and international relations in the
late 1970s and early 1980s, took a more critical view. He argued that the state was a central construct that
had a history. The state, he argued, was an ensemble of relations of power, neither reducible to a social
structure nor an autonomous a