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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction. Nation-States in History -- PART 1. NATIONAL IDENTITIES -- Chapter 1. Nationalism, Popular Sovereignty, and the Liberal Democratic State -- Chapter 2. What States Can Do with Nations: An Iron Law of Nationalism and Federation? -- Chapter 3. A State without a Nation? Russia after Empire -- Chapter 4. The Return of the Coercive State: Behavioral Control in Multicultural Society -- PART 2. STATE SECURITY -- Chapter 5. States, Security Function, and the New Global Forces -- Chapter 6. States and War in Africa -- PART 3. STATE AUTONOMY -- Chapter 7. National Legislatures in Common Markets: Autonomy in the European Union and Mercosur -- Chapter 8. The Tax State in the Information Age -- Chapter 9. States, Politics, and Globalization: Why Institutions Still Matter -- Chapter 10. Globalization, the State, and Industrial Relations: Common Challenges, Divergent Transitions -- PART 4. STATE CAPACITY -- Chapter 11. The State after State Socialism: Poland in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 12. Rotten from Within: Decentralized Predation and Incapacitated State -- Conclusion. What States Can Do Now -- Contributors -- Index

In his latest collection of essays, Neil Davidson brings his formidable analytical powers to bear on the concept of the capitalist nation-state. Through probing inquiry, Davidson draws out how nationalist ideology and consciousness is used to bind the subordinate classes to "the nation," while simultaneously using "the state" as a means of conducting geopolitical competition for capital

Does globalization mean the end of the nation state? Or are nation states able to respond to processes of global change? This impressively comprehensive book examines the connections and conflicts that exist between global and national processes, institutions and cultures.Debating and explaining controversial and contested understandings of globalization, the second edition has new content on: hot and timely topics, from human rights and migration to new technologies and environmental sustainability connections between globalization and global events, including the rise of

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