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The Evolution of StatehoodFrom Early States to Global SocietySaarbrucken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011. - 360 p.
Authors: Grinin, Leonid
ISBN-10: 3843394377
ISBN-13: 978-3843394376 |
The monograph is devoted to the problems of the origins, development and present situation of statehood. It also provides the forecasts of political development in the coming decades. The book touches upon a wide range of issues and topics, including: What alternatives did state have in evolution? Which main evolutionary stages has it passed as a structure? What are early, developed and mature types of the state? Were Athens and Rome Republic states? What new coalitions of countries will be possible in the nearest decades?
The book presents a new approach to the causes and models of the emergence of the state, to the state’s position among the forms competing with it (analogues of the early state) and new models of the state’s evolution. Today in their full swing are the processes of transformation of state sovereignty, change of state’s nature and functions and countries` integration into supranational communities. In the last chapter the reasons are explained of the inexplicable, at first glance, phenomenon why modern states voluntarily reduce their sovereign prerogatives.
Without the analysis of the statehood genesis and development, it is almost impossible to understand the course of human history and modern condition of World System as well as the possible directions of its transition. So we hope the book will be interesting to a broad audience both to specialists in political anthropology, philosophy, political studies, future studies, globalization studies, historical sociology, cultural evolution as well as to anyone interested in history and modern political problems and global trends.
Contents
Preface
Introduction. Evolution Theory and the Problems of the State Theory
Chapter 1. The Pathways of Initial Politogenesis: Early State and Early State Analogues
The beginning of politogenesis
Politogenesis vs. state formation process
On some definitions
Early state analogues
Chapter 2. Polity Size and the Course of Politogenesis
General notes
The problem of sizes of the early state
Classification of states and their analogues according to their size
Polity size and politogenesis models. Conditions of state formation
Chapter 3. Analogous and Early-State Polities: A Comparison
Introductory remarks
Comparing the early state with its analogues
Specific properties of supreme power
New principles of government
New and non-traditional forms of regulating social life
Redistribution of power
Chapter 4. Were Athens and the Roman Republic States?
Preliminary remarks
On the typology of the early states
Stateless societies or a specific type of an early state?
Naturalness of the democratic path of state formation
Berent's and Shtaerman's arguments and their disproof
Attributes distinguishing the early state from its analogues in application to Athens and roman republic
Chapter 5. The Statehood Evolutionary Sequence: Early – Developed – Mature states
Preliminary remarks
The differences in opinions on the mature state
The necessity of the evolutionary scheme change
Main differences of the early, developed, and mature state
Early state
Developed state
Mature state
Mature state transformation in the 20th century
Concluding remarks
Chapter 6. On the way to Global Society: Why do States Lose their Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization?
Preliminary notes on sovereignty transformation
Why is the notion of sovereignty difficult and ambiguous?
Globalization, economy, and world policy
Globalization, reducing sovereignty and nationalism
Different issues of national sovereignty change
The global crisis and possible political transformation of the world system
Afterwards
Reference list
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