The Modern State

by Christopher Pierson (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $52.87

  The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. It examines the state from its historical origins at the birth of modernity to its current jeopardized position in the globalized politics of the 21st Century. The book has been entirely revised and updated throughout, including substantial new material on the financial crisis and the environment.

  Subjects covered include:

  
  * The evolution of the state system
  * Placing the state in modernity
  * States and societies
  * State and economy
  * States and citizens
  * States and the international order
  * States of the twenty-first century

  This book is essential reading for all those studying the state, international relations and comparative politics.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.29

  The modern state is hugely important in our everyday lives. It takes nearly half our income in taxes. It registers our births, marriages and deaths. It educates our children and pays our pensions. It has a unique power to compel, in some cases exercising the ultimate sanction of preserving life or ordering death. Yet most of us would struggle to say exactly what the state is. The Modern State offers a clear, comprehensive and provoking introduction to one of the most important phenomena of contemporary life. Topics covered include: the nation state and its historical context state and economy state and societies state and citizens international relations the future of the state