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Hierarchy and the state : state-building in the shadow of American economic power / Patrick E. Shea.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shea, Patrick E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nation-building--Economic aspects--United States.
- Nation-building.
- Investments, American--Political aspects.
- Investments, American.
- Right of property--Political aspects--United States.
- Right of property.
- Hegemony--United States.
- Hegemony.
- United States--Foreign economic relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Does American influence help or hinder the capacity-building of partner states? In Hierarchy and the State, Patrick E. Shea challenges the conventional wisdom that US influence undermines state-building in developing countries, instead arguing that US support has actually enhanced state capacity over the past forty years. The book asserts that American economic power plays a pivotal role in enhancing a state's ability to build and sustain itself. Tracing the evolution of US property rights promotion from 1782 to the present, it reveals the complex interplay of economic and security interests that shape American foreign policy. Through cutting-edge quantitative techniques and original data on US hierarchy, Hierarchy and the State provides robust evidence for the mechanisms linking international influence, property rights, and state-building outcomes. Its novel framework will change the way scholars examine the international politics of state-building.
- Contents:
- The United States and international state-building efforts
- The international politics of state-building
- Hierarchy, property rights, and state capacity
- The United States and external property rights
- Measuring hierarchy
- Statistical analysis of hierarchy, property rights, and state capacity
- American hierarchy and its discontents : unpacking the consequences for partner states
- Enter China : new hierarchies and state development
- Hierarchy and the state in a multipolar world.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Aug 2025).
- ISBN:
- 1-009-60928-9
- 1-009-60927-0
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