. Spruyt's interdisciplinary approach not only has important implications for change in the state system in our time, but also presents a novel analysis of the

The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical developme

Increasingly today nation-states are entering into agreements that involve the sharing or surrendering of parts of their sovereign powers and often leave the ce

This important book is the first serious philosophical examination of the modern state. It inquires into the justification of this particular form of political

States make war, but war also makes states. As Publishers Weekly notes, “Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars hav