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The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 230
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
Publication Date:
11 August 1996
ISBN: 9780691025711
Format: Paperback
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"All may . . . welcome [Thomson] as a fellow-grappler with that protean problem that confronts historians and . . . social scientists alike: the shortcomings of international society [today], and the degree to which those shortcomings are attributable to the idea that 'sovereign states' have of themselves, and the self-interested ways they tend to behave within it."---Geoffrey Best, Times Literary Supplement
Janice E. Thomson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington.