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THEWORLDOF STATES SECONDEDITION Without nation states Covid-19, climate change, international cyberattacks,andotherthreatswouldgounchecked InTheWorld ofStates,JohnL CampbellandJohnA Hallchallengetheviewthat nation stateshavelosttheirrelevanceinthecontextofglobalization and rising nationalism The book traces how states evolved historically,howcontemporarystatesdifferfromoneanother,and the interactions between them. States today confront a host of challenges, but two features make some states more effective than others:institutionalarrangementandnationalidentity.Thesecond editionhasbeenupdatedtodiscusswhytheBRICScountries(with theexceptionofChina) are nolongertherisingpowersthey were oncethoughttobe;theeffectsofBrexitontheEuropeanUnion;the legacyoftheTrumpadministrationforUSpoliticsandhegemony; and how the coronavirus may upset the world of states going forward. john l. campbell istheClassof1925Professor&Professorof Sociology at Dartmouth College He is the author of American Discontentandotherbooks.HelivesinLyme,NewHampshire john a. hall is the James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University He is the author of The ImportanceofBeingCivilandotherbooks.HelivesinBurlington, VermontandMontreal,Quebec. THE WORLD OF STATES Second Edition JOHN L. CAMPBELL DartmouthCollege JOHN A. HALL McGillUniversity UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny 10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic 3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06 04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108832939 doi: 10.1017/9781108966412 ©JohnL.CampbellandJohnA.Hall2015,2021 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015byBloomsburyAcademic Secondeditionpublished2021byCambridgeUniversityPress AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn 978-1-108-83293-9Hardback isbn 978-1-108-96589-7Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate contents ListofTables pagevii PrefacetotheFirstEdition ix PrefacetotheRevised,SecondEdition xi Introduction 1 LookingAhead 11 1 ThePast 16 Baselines 16 TheEuropeanDynamic 23 Europe’sPeloponnesianWar 29 Recovery 43 2 ConditionsofExistence,OldandNew 55 Novelties 55 Continuities 69 Conclusion 78 3 Challengers? 80 TheNatureofDevelopment 80 TheBRICs 87 Conclusion 114 4 StatesoftheGlobalSouth 117 AnAnatomyofWeakness 118 MuddlingThrough 133 Conclusion 146 v contents 5 TheNorth 148 SteeringMechanisms 149 TheEuropeanUnion 162 TheTransatlanticCommunity 173 Conclusion 184 6 StilltheStrongestPoweronEarth? 186 GunsandGeopolitics 189 DynamismandDestruction,DollarsandDebts 195 Self-InflictedWounds 201 Conclusion 216 Conclusion 219 References 231 Index 254 vi tables 3.1 AverageannualGDPgrowthrates page92 3.2 Characteristicsofthekeynorthern andsouthern/BRICcountries,2009 94 3.3 Levelsofcleangovernmentandbusiness 96 vii preface to the first edition Ourcollaborationonthisbookisratherrecentdespitethefact thatwehaveworkedtogetherformanyyears.JohnHallbegan to write it a few years ago but then set it aside due to other commitments. Oneof these commitmentswas a project that he and John Campbell started thanks to their personal and professional relationships in Denmark. Many years ago they began to investigate how that small state managed to do so well in a world of increasing political and economic global ization.TheformerwassurethatDanishsuccessstemmedin largemeasurefromitsculturalhomogeneityandstrongsense ofnationalidentity.Thelatterwasconvincedthatithadmore todowiththeinstitutionalarrangementofitspoliticalecon omy. As it turned out, we were both right. But this led us to wonder how far we could generalize our thoughts to explain thefateofotherstates.Thisbookistheresult. Asreaderswillquicklysee,considerationsofnational identity and institutional arrangement constitute the princi palarcthatrunsthroughtheentirevolume.Ourcentralclaim isthatweliveinaworldofstatesdespitetheincreasingtempo of the global economy. Power is accordingly at the center of ourattention,bothasitexistswithinandbetweenstatesand as it has changed over time. We believe that power has economic, political, and ideological dimensions, and insist thatitcanbeeithercoerciveorcollective.Andweseeinstitu- tions as the expression of power. Few books have addressed ix
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