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Politics - Authority, Identities and Change (Hardcover, New)
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Politics - Authority, Identities and Change (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in International Relations
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This text seeks to fulfil the promise made in ""The Elusive Quest""
to offer an alternative way of thinking about relations among
polities. It attempts to shift the discipline's traditional focus
from a world of territorially bounded sovereign states to an
ever-changing variety of overlapping, layered, and politically
functioning collectives. Ferguson and Mansbach identify ideal
polity types and contend that while individuals typically possess
loyalties to many compatible polities, issues may force individious
choices, as exemplified by the post-cold-war reawakening of
""nations,"" tribes, and clans. Through six case studies of major
civilizations and ages, they illustrate their theoretical arguments
about the constant evolution of polities, the continual shifting of
the global structure, and the importance of the past for
understanding both the present and the future of global politics.
The case studies included are: Ancient Mesopotamia; Greece from the
Archaic period to Alexander; China from the early Chou to the Han
era; Mesoamerica before and after the Spanish Conquest; Medieval
Islam; and Italy from Rome to the Renaissance.
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