GOVT 85.10 State Making and State Breaking

We study the causes of state formation, breakup, and collapse. Why did the modern territorial state triumph over its competitors over most of the world, such as feudal domains, condominiums, tribes, confederations, and city-states? What explains the rise in the territorial scale of the state between the 10th and 20th centuries, as well as its organizational deepening over that period? How serious are today’s challenges to the territorial state, like separatist movements, supranational federations, de facto states, and functional overlapping competing jurisdictions?

Instructor

Sorens

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:INT

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