Stability without Statehood: Lessons from Europe's History before the Sovereign State

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction: Through the Shadows of the State......Page 12
1.1 The state from prescriptive polemics to a descriptive grid......Page 18
1.2 Rule, rules and relations before states: republican systems theory......Page 29
1.3 Giving shape to action: forms of rule......Page 34
1.4 Viability and survival......Page 37
2.1 Republican theories of world politics......Page 42
2.2 Republics evade the spectrum states- system of states......Page 46
2.3 The ideal type of the compound republic......Page 50
2.4 Compound republics in world politics......Page 59
3.1 A neglected Methuselah......Page 62
3.2 The Holy Roman Empire as a compound republic......Page 65
3.3 The Holy Roman Empire and systems in the environment......Page 78
3.4 The Holy Roman Empire in world politics......Page 83
4.1 Self- evident truths?......Page 103
4.2 Towards the new world......Page 106
4.3 The United States as a republican form of rule......Page 108
4.4 The Empire of Liberty......Page 120
5.1 Great expectations: the European Union as a compound republic......Page 130
5.2 The European Union and systems in the environment......Page 142
5.3 The European Union in world politics 1992–2010......Page 151
6.1 Leviathan’s travels......Page 175
6.2 The coup d’état of the state in contemporary security......Page 178
6.3 Republican security analysis and historical analogies......Page 180
6.4 Republican commonwealths......Page 188
Conclusions......Page 193
Comparing republics: the Holy Roman Empire, the United States and the European Union......Page 194
Republican policies for the twenty- first century......Page 205
Bibliography......Page 210
Index......Page 232