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Description: ISBN10: 0691033560, ISBN13: 9780691033563, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover XII; 288 S.; Kt.; Tab.; 24 cm. Sehr gutes Exemplar. - Englisch. - The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical development. Hendrik Spruyt argues that there was nothing inevitable about the rise of the state system, however. Examining the competing institutions that arose during the decline of feudalism - among them urban leagues, independent communes, city-states, and sovereign monarchies - Spruyt disposes of the familiar claim that the superior size and war - making ability of the sovereign nation-state made it the natural successor to the feudal system. The author argues that feudalism did not give way to any single successor institution in simple linear fashion, institutional forms, such as the sovereign, territorial state in France, the Hanseatic League, and the Italian city-states, in reaction to a dramatic change in the medieval economic environment. Only in a subsequent selective phase of institutional evolution did sovereign, territorial authority prove to have significant institutional advantages over its rivals. Sovereign authority proved to be more successful in organizing domestic society and structuring external affairs. 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 dynamics of institutional change. (Verlagstext) // INHALT : PART I: CONTINGENCY, CHOICE, AND CONSTRAINT --- CHAPTER 1 --- Structural Change in International Relations --- Neorealism and Its Critics: The Origins of the State as an Issue in --- International Relations --- Variation in Units as Variation in Systems Structure Unilinear Explanations of Change The Fallacy of the Unilinear Evolutionary Image --- CHAPTER 2 --- Organizational Variation and Selection in the International System --- A Nonlinear View of Evolutionary Change --- A Proposed Causal Model for Explaining Institutional Variation --- and Selection A Nonlinear Account of State Formation through War --- CHAPTER 3 --- Modes of Nonterritorial Organization: Feudalism, the Church, --- and the Holy Roman Empire --- Feudalism: Rule by Personal Ronds Universalist Claims of the Church The Holy Roman Empire Conclusion --- PART II: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW MODES OF ORGANIZATION --- CHAPTER 4 --- The Economic Renaissance of the Late Middle Ages --- The Catalyst: The Expansion of Trade and the Growth of Towns --- Imagining the Sovereign State --- Conclusion --- CHAPTER 5 --- The Rise of the Sovereign, Territorial State in Capetian France --- The Reginning of the French State: The Consolidation of the Capetian Dynasty (987-1328) --- u.v.a. ISBN 0691033560 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Originalleinen mit illustr. Schutzumschlag. [Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1994]  

2. The Sovereign State and Its Competitions. Princeton Studies in International History and Politics.
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Description: ISBN10: 0691033560, ISBN13: 9780691033563, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover XII; 288 S.; Kt.; Tab.; 24 cm. Sehr gutes Exemplar. - Englisch. - The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical development. Hendrik Spruyt argues that there was nothing inevitable about the rise of the state system, however. Examining the competing institutions that arose during the decline of feudalism - among them urban leagues, independent communes, city-states, and sovereign monarchies - Spruyt disposes of the familiar claim that the superior size and war - making ability of the sovereign nation-state made it the natural successor to the feudal system. The author argues that feudalism did not give way to any single successor institution in simple linear fashion, institutional forms, such as the sovereign, territorial state in France, the Hanseatic League, and the Italian city-states, in reaction to a dramatic change in the medieval economic environment. Only in a subsequent selective phase of institutional evolution did sovereign, territorial authority prove to have significant institutional advantages over its rivals. Sovereign authority proved to be more successful in organizing domestic society and structuring external affairs. 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 dynamics of institutional change. (Verlagstext) // INHALT : PART I: CONTINGENCY, CHOICE, AND CONSTRAINT --- CHAPTER 1 --- Structural Change in International Relations --- Neorealism and Its Critics: The Origins of the State as an Issue in --- International Relations --- Variation in Units as Variation in Systems Structure Unilinear Explanations of Change The Fallacy of the Unilinear Evolutionary Image --- CHAPTER 2 --- Organizational Variation and Selection in the International System --- A Nonlinear View of Evolutionary Change --- A Proposed Causal Model for Explaining Institutional Variation --- and Selection A Nonlinear Account of State Formation through War --- CHAPTER 3 --- Modes of Nonterritorial Organization: Feudalism, the Church, --- and the Holy Roman Empire --- Feudalism: Rule by Personal Ronds Universalist Claims of the Church The Holy Roman Empire Conclusion --- PART II: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW MODES OF ORGANIZATION --- CHAPTER 4 --- The Economic Renaissance of the Late Middle Ages --- The Catalyst: The Expansion of Trade and the Growth of Towns --- Imagining the Sovereign State --- Conclusion --- CHAPTER 5 --- The Rise of the Sovereign, Territorial State in Capetian France --- The Reginning of the French State: The Consolidation of the Capetian Dynasty (987-1328) --- u.v.a. ISBN 0691033560 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Originalleinen mit illustr. Schutzumschlag. [Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1994]  

3. The Sovereign State and Its Competitors
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