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Book SynopsisIn Nation-States, Richard Lee Hough interprets the role of the nation-state, analyzing the factors that impinge on its viability and correcting the present tilt in numerous commentaries positing, or prophesying, its decline. Hough seeks to balance, or refute those, who in various ways, see the degeneration of the modern nation-state.
Trade Review'The Nation-States: Concert or Chaos' is clearly written, and although elegant in style, it eschews jargon and can be read with interest and understanding by college undergraduates. It is appropriate for use as a text in university courses on the international system or state structures?Being informed by long experience and serious scholarship, Hough's book also will be interesting reading for any adult who is wondering where the world may be going as the twenty-first century progresses. -- William A. Douglas, PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE * Perspectives on Political Science *
'The Nation-States: Concert or Chaos' is clearly written, and although elegant in style, it eschews jargon and can be read with interest and understanding by college undergraduates. It is appropriate for use as a text in university courses on the international system or state structures…Being informed by long experience and serious scholarship, Hough's book also will be interesting reading for any adult who is wondering where the world may be going as the twenty-first century progresses. -- William A. Douglas, PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE * Perspectives on Political Science *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Evolution of the Nation-State Chapter 4 Globalization and the Nation-State Chapter 5 Nationalism: Nation-Building or Nation-Splitting Chapter 6 Democracy and the Nation-State Chapter 7 Non-State Actors and the Nation-State Chapter 8 The Environment and the Nation-State Chapter 9 The United States: Its Preeminent Role Chapter 10 The Nation-States: Concert or Chaos Chapter 11 Index Chapter 12 About the Author
