De-Centering State Making

Download or read book De-Centering State Making written by Jens Bartelson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the gap between international relations and comparative politics, this book transposes Eurocentric theories and narratives of state-making to new historical and geographical contexts in order to probe their scope conditions. In doing this, the authors question received explanations of the historical origins and geographical limits of state-making, questioning the unilinear view of the emergence of the modern state and the international system. Theoretically and methodologically eclectic, the volume explores a range of empirical cases not often discussed in the literature.