Contemporary Crisis of the Nation State? (Political Studies Special Issues) by - epub fb2 djvu

It is commonly claimed today that the nation state as a political structure confronts problems of the greatest urgency and importance which it cannot handle and which may well therefore menace its (and perhaps our) continued existence. This book questions how far the first of these claims is true and how far, insofar as it is true, the resulting situation is genuinely novel or the threat itself is principally one to the nation state in particular (as opposed to the human species at large).