Political Disintegration in the Post-Cold War World
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Introduction, R. Brian Ferguson; Part 1 Commentaries; Chapter 1 Comments on state, identity and violence, Eric R. Wolf; Chapter 2 Forces of reaction and changes of scale in the world system of states, Joseph A. Tainter; Chapter 3 The state concept and a world of polities under perpetual siege, Yale H. Ferguson; Chapter 4 Tribalism, ethnicity and the state, David Maybury-Lewis; Chapter 5 Culture, violence, and ethnic nationalism, Kay Warren; Part 2 Cases; Chapter 6 Civil war in Peru, Linda J. Seligmann; Chapter 7 Religious violence in India, Johanna M. Lessinger; Chapter 8 The specter of superfluity, Bette Denich; Chapter 9 From the margins to the center, Anastasia Karakasidou; Chapter 10 Liberia, Diana DeG. Brown; Chapter 11 Angola and the fragmentation of the post-colonial African state, Helio Belik; Chapter 12 A Cold War story, S.P. Reyna; Chapter 13 The Cold War and chaos in Somalia, Catherine Besteman; Chapter 14 Conflicts versus contracts, Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart;