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CHAPTER TWO: THE STATE

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a. Is sovereignty finished?

b. Is the security challenge after 9/11 reviving the state?

c. Should collapsed states be rebuilt?

 

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Hague & Harrop, 2007 edn, ch. 2.

S. Chesterman, M. Ignatieff and R. Thakur, eds, Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance

B. Davidson, The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State

P. Diehl, The Politics of Global Governance

D. Held, Democracy and the Global Order

J. Holzgrefe and R. Keohane, eds, Humantarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal and Political Dilemmas

G. Hyden, African Politics in Comparative Perspective

R. Jackson, Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World

F. Kratchowil and E. Mansfield, International Organization: A Reader, ch.1

F. Lechner and J. Boli, eds, The Globalization Reader

J. Migdal, State in Society: Studying how States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another

J. Milliken, ed., State Failure, Collapse and Reconstruction

N. Nugent, The Government and Politics of the European Union

W. Opello and S. Rosow, The Nation-State and Global Order, part 4.

T. Paul, ed., The Nation-State in Question

R. Rotberg, ed., When States Fail: Causes and Consequences

J. Scholte, Globalization: A Critical Introduction

G. Sørensen, The Transformation of the State: Beyond the Myth of Retrea.

L. Weiss, The Myth of the Powerless State

W. Zartman, ed., Collapsed States: The Disintegration and Restoration of Legitimate Authority