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The Cartel System of States - An Economic Theory of International Politics (Paperback)
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The people who live in border towns often have closer relations
with people across their immediate borders than with people in the
same country as them. Despite how intertwined these border
communities often are, neither community can access the
governmental institutions of the nation on the other side. Why are
the citizens of neighboring regions that lie across an
international border often subject to very different governance
systems? More broadly, why can't public services be bought
piecemeal, on an a-la-carte basis, with governments competing to
provide higher quality services at the lowest cost in a marketplace
for government services? These questions lie at the heart of modern
International Relations. In The Cartel System of States, Avidit
Acharya and Alexander Lee provide a powerful and field-shaping
theory to address a fundamental issue in world politics: the
character of the territorial nation-state. They contend that the
modern territorial state system works as an economic cartel in
which states have local, bounded monopolies in governing their
citizens. States refuse to violate each other's monopolies, even
when they could do so easily. Acharya and Lee examine what makes
this system stable, when and how it emerged, how it spread, how it
has been challenged, and what led it to be so resilient over time.
Drawing from the centuries long process of modern state formation,
The Cartel System of States explains both how the present system of
territorial states-by no means a foregone conclusion in
retrospect-took over the world and how it might change in the
future.
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