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State (polity)

About: State (polity) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 36954 publications have been published within this topic receiving 719822 citations. The topic is also known as: state (polity).


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TL;DR: The authors argues that understanding the changing cultural and political terrain of states and nations is relevant and crucial to analyses of sexuality and gender, arguing that states are not declining but being reconfigured in line with cross-border flows of capital, neoliberalism, and intra-, inter-, and extra-state violence.
Abstract: Feminists' attention to states and nations has been uneven. The cultural struggles over citizenship, the deployment of nationalisms, and the exigencies of an international system of states have not been fully analyzed from a race/sexuality/gender perspective. This is troubling given the ongoing evidence of the salience of states and nations in the lives of women and marginalized groups. Contrary to some predictions, states are not declining but being reconfigured in line with cross-border flows of capital, neoliberalism, and intra-, inter-, and extra-state violence. The fault lines of nationalism(s) are also starkly evident. The flawed promises of nationalism as an all-inclusive, horizontal community are especially visible from the positions of women and marginalized groups. This special issue argues that understanding the changing cultural and political terrain of states and nations is relevant and crucial to analyses of sexuality and gender. This issue grows out of the recent work of a number of feminist scholars who have recognized that states, nationalisms, and nations are profoundly gendered. They have attended to the gendered-, class-, and race-based idioms that shape the contours of nationalism, its boundaries, and its

147 citations

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01 Jul 1995
TL;DR: The United States and the United Nations finally intervened militarily in Somalia in 1992, thereby limiting their ability to act on the core political and security dimensions of the emergency, which led to state collapse and social disintegration.
Abstract: The multilateral military intervention in Somalia was one of the international community's first major attempts to respond to a dangerous new challenge in the post-cold war erathe problem of state collapse and social disintegration. Catastrophes such as Somalia reach public attention as humanitarian emergencies, but the underlying causes are the disintegration of political institutions and the resulting chaos and insecurity. Given the challenges inherent in such political crises, can the international community respond effectively to encourage political reconciliation and the rehabilitation of governing institutions?This book suggests that the international community ignored clear warning signs in Somalia and missed several opportunities to use diplomacy to prevent state collapse. As a result, the destruction of the state became more complete and the difficulties in rebuilding a viable system more demanding. When the United States and the United Nations finally intervened militarily in 1992, they focused on the humanitarian aspects of the emergency, thereby limiting their ability to act on the core political and security dimensions.This book shows how lessons learned in Somalia will shape international responses in future cases. It details the deep- rooted social, political, and economic processes that led to the decomposition of the state in the early 1990s; analyzes the attempts by the international community to encourage political reconciliation; and offers guidelines for policymakers. "

146 citations

Book
01 Jun 2009
TL;DR: The authors argued that countries once under direct British imperial control have developed more successfully than those that were ruled indirectly, and that direct rule promoted cogent and coherent states with high levels of bureaucratization and inclusiveness.
Abstract: Traditionally, social scientists have assumed that past imperialism hinders the future development prospects of colonized nations. Challenging this widespread belief, Matthew Lange argues in "Lineages of Despotism and Development" that countries once under direct British imperial control have developed more successfully than those that were ruled indirectly. Combining statistical analysis with in-depth case studies of former British colonies, this volume argues that direct rule promoted cogent and coherent states with high levels of bureaucratization and inclusiveness, which contributed to implementing development policy during late colonialism and independence. On the other hand, Lange finds that indirect British rule created weak, patrimonial states that preyed on their own populations. Firmly grounded in the tradition of comparative-historical analysis while offering fresh insight into the colonial roots of uneven development, "Lineages of Despotism and Development" will interest economists, sociologists, and political scientists alike.

146 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider how states and markets shape one another at the national and world-system levels and how globalization is transforming that relationship, illustrated through a review of research on liberal, social rights, developmental, and socialist states in the postwar capitalist economy.
Abstract: The paper considers how states and markets shape one another at the national and world-system levels and how globalization is transforming that relationship. This process is illustrated through a review of research on liberal, social rights, developmental, and socialist states in the postwar capitalist economy. These state models were reconciled with expanding international markets through a series of controls on trade and capital flows. Globalization has undermined many of these controls so that states must increasingly integrate themselves into local and global networks. States are experimenting with organizational and strategic changes nationally and internationally in order to respond to a networked economy and polity. Neoliberal institutions are the dominant force shaping the relation between states and markets in the contemporary era, but alternative state-society alliances are emerging to contest the hegemony of neoliberalism in shaping globalization.

146 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202214
2021837
20201,140
20191,144
20181,239
20171,447