Geopolitics of the state -- The theory of state fragmentation -- The fragmentation of the British Empire in North America in the eighteenth century -- The fragmentation of the Qing Empire in China in the nineteenth century -- Comparing the American Civil War with the Chinese "Taiping Rebellion" in the mid-nineteenth century -- Fragmentation of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia -- A geopolitical diversity of state fragmentation: the cases of Singapore and Czechoslovakia -- Why did Ukraine break apart and lose Crimea to Russia?
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
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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.
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Contemporary China's sociolegal control system is built upon a unique organizational arrangement which differs not only from other countries in the world but also from its own past. The very core of this organizational arrangement is what I define as a "double-track" socio-legality with laws and codified regulation mainly concentrated on economic and commercial sectors with the ruling party focusing its administrative control on political and ideological sectors. This institutional context is critical to understanding the nature of social control mechanism in China. The fact is that with all the laws and regulations promulgated in recent years, the newly developed "legal space". if examined carefully, only indicates a long-term strategic effort of the Chinese government to adjust rather than abandon its existing socio-legality of conflict meditation and resolution, making it more adaptable to the new social environment shaped by the forces of globalization.
