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Why Do States Fragment and Break Apart? [electronic resource] : An Historical Sociology of Eight Cases (Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century)

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Li, Jieli.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Failed states--History.
Failed states.
Geopolitics.
Imperialism--History--18th century.
Imperialism--History--19th century.
Imperialism--History--20th century.
Failed states--History--18th century.
Failed states--History--19th century.
Imperialism.
Imperialism--History.
Local Subjects:
Failed states--History.
Failed states.
Geopolitics.
Imperialism--History--18th century.
Imperialism--History--19th century.
Imperialism--History--20th century.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (297 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Other Title:
Why Do States Fragment and Break Apart?
Place of Publication:
Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This comparative analysis demonstrates how state fragmentation results from a causal chain of geopolitical strains, resource shortfalls, intra-elite conflict, and the deficiency of a central government's coercive capability to hold the society together. The emergence process of new sovereign states is also discussed.
Contents:
WHY DO STATES FRAGMENT AND BREAK APART?: An Historical Sociology of Eight Cases (Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century); Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures, Maps and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - Geopolitics of the State; Chapter 2 - The Theory of State Fragmentation; Chapter 3 - The Fragmentation of the British Empire in North America in The Eighteenth Century; Chapter 4 - The Fragmentation of the Qing Empire in China in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 5 - Comparing the American Civil War with the Chinese ""Taiping Rebellion"" in the Mid-Nineteenth CenturyChapter 6 - The Fragmenation of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia; Chapter 7 - The Geopolitics of Modern China: Why Doesn't The Communist State Fragment?; Chapter 8 - A Geopolitical Diversity of State Fragmentation: The Cases of Singapore and Czechoslovakia; Final Remarks; Bibliography; Index
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-7734-3007-5
OCLC:
818851279

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