Nations, States and Empires

Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Empires
	States
	Nations
	The Plan of the Book
1  Capstones and Organisms
	Formations, East and West
	Parting of the Ways
	Consequences
		The Role of the Church
		Controls and Innovations
		Organic States
		Competition without End
	The Leading Edge and Its Rival
	Conclusion
2  The Cut-Throat Struggle of Competing Empires
	A Measure of Stability
	Pressures Mount
	Things Fall Apart
	The Era of Passionate Intensity
	Conclusion
3  Stabilities, Fixed and Fleeting
	Enemy Partners
	The Socialist Bloc
	The American World
	Splendours and Miseries of Decolonization
	Cold War Imperialism
	Decline and Fall
	Conclusion
4  Fear and Trembling
	Essentially contested acronyms, or, varieties of political economies
	Pride and Prejudice
	Decline and Fall?
	‘In peace, the most good; in war, the least harm’
	Conclusion
Conclusion
	Continuities in Power Relations
	Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner?
References
Index
EULA