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Power & Choice, 8/e
W. Phillips Shively, University of Minnesota---Minneapolis
The Modern State

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I. Why are we fixated on the state?

II. The development of the modern state

III. The origin of the state

  1. Box: Marxist theory of the state

VI. "State," "nation," and the "nation-state"

V. Government and the state

VI. Challenges to the state

  1. From above the state

    1. economic policy

    2. militant Islam

  1. From below

    1. ethnic and separatist movements

VII. Are states losing their ability to make economic policy?

VIII. Some possible alternatives

IX. The West, the East and the South

X. Conclusion:

  1. Example: State Building in Nigeria

  2. Example: State Building in the European Union









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