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Impact of the U.S. as a debtor nation and Japan as a creditor nation.

How can we understand long-term change in world politics better? Based on readings of thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Foucault and Luhmann, the authors of this book propose a framework for understanding such change in terms of social evolution. They show that processes of social learning and unlearning are key to understanding the long-term historical evolution of complex societies, and propose to approach these with the core concepts of autonomization, hierarchical complexity, and co-evolution. Three case studies illustrate this social evolutionary perspective to the study of world politics, examining the evolution of forms of organizing political authority, of conflicts, of diplomacy, of law as boundary condition.

Introduction : governments-in-exile and the age of democratic transitions / Yossi Shain -- Namibia : the road to independence and the problem of succession of states / Lynn Berat -- Government-in-exile versus government-in-insurgency : the case of Angola / John Marcum -- State and government in Palestinian political thought : 1918-1990 / Muhammad Muslih -- Afghanistan : political exiles in search of a state / Barnett R. Rubin -- The Khmer way of exile : lessons from three Indochinese wars / Craig Etcheson -- Loyalty and recognition under challenge : the Yugoslav case 1941-1945 / Paula Franklin Lytle -- Sovereignty without government : Baltic diplomatic and consular representation, 1940-1990 / Romuald J. Misiunas -- The government of the Spanish Republic in exile : 1939-1977 / Javier Tusell and Alicia Alted -- Exile governments in the Armenian polity / Khachig Tololyan -- The new Snow Lion : the Tibetan government-in-exile in India / Rebecca R. French -- The transcendental Irish Republic : the dream of diaspora / J. Bowyer Bell -- Governments-in-exile and international legitimation / Yossi Shain -- Governments-in-exile : notes toward a theory of formation and operation / Michael Reisman