Description
Book SynopsisThis book traces the rise of the modern state in post-Enlightenment Europe and its spread to the remainder of the world, especially colonial and postcolonial societies. It shows how non-Western cultures invented their own practices of the state, thereby transforming the original model.
Trade Review"This is an important book by any standard. No matter how commonplace it is to observe that the state was born in Western Europe and subsequently exported to the rest of the world, until now there has been no single book that traces out the implications of this for those peripheral, extra-European societies that were compelled to import this bizarre form of political order. It is impossible to do justice to the variety and scope of arguments that Badie develops in this extraordinarily erudite and interdisciplinary work." -Philippe C. Schmitter,Stanford University
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Exportation of Political Models: 1. The logic of dependence; 2. The universalist claim of the state; Part II. The importation of political models: 3. Importers and their strategies; 4. Imported products; Part III. Failed universalization and creative deviation: 5. Internal disorders; 6. International disorders; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
