Stability Without Statehood

Lessons from Europe's History Before the Sovereign State

By: Peter Halden

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Hardcover | 1 June 2011 | Edition Number 1

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This book reinterprets the EU using classical and early modern republican political theory. Bypassing the nation-state, it presents a new theory of the creation, change and demise of organizations in world politics. It also argues that the state is a problematic solution to 'state-failure' and explores alternative republican commonwealths.

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: Through the Shadows of the State	p. 1
The Fiction of the State as the Good, Natural and the Beautiful	p. 7
The state from prescriptive polemics to a descriptive grid	p. 7
Rule, rules and relations before states: republican systems theory	p. 18
Giving shape to action: forms of rule	p. 23
Viability and survival	p. 26
Remedies: The Neglected Heritage of Republicanism	p. 31
Republican theories of world politics	p. 31
Republics evade the spectrum states-system of states	p. 35
The ideal type of the compound republic	p. 39
Compound republics in world politics	p. 48
A Long-lived Republic: The Holy Roman Empire 1648-1763	p. 51
A neglected Methuselah	p. 51
The Holy Roman Empire as a compound republic	p. 54
The Holy Roman Empire and systems in the environment	p. 67
The Holy Roman Empire in world politics	p. 72
A Solitary Republic: The United States of America 1776-1865	p. 92
Self-evident truths?	p. 92
Towards the new world	p. 95
The United States as a republican form of rule	p. 97
The Empire of Liberty	p. 109
A Shielded Republic: The European Union 1957-2010	p. 119
Great expectations: the European Union as a compound republic	p. 119
The European Union and systems in the environment	p. 131
The European Union in world politics 1992-2010	p. 140
Republican Commonwealths versus State-Building	p. 164
Leviathan's travels	p. 164
The coup d'état of the state in contemporary security	p. 167
Republican security analysis and historical analogies	p. 169
Republican commonwealths	p. 177
Conclusions	p. 182
Comparing republics: the Holy Roman Empire, the United States and the European Union	p. 183
Republican policies for the twenty-first century	p. 194
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 221
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