At a broader level, the horrifying violence of the genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries raises urgent questions about the efficacy of parochial nation states as mechanisms for governing ...

This course will trace the development of the idea of territorial sovereignty and its role in the creation of the modern nation-state and the international state system. It will be along the edges and ...

As Tom McTague writes in The Atlantic, Britain has for centuries “struggled with the challenge facing the modern nation-state: how to balance control and influence”. As globalisation has swept ...

Some of these identities—the head of the household and the soldier—were intentional constructions of the Meiji government as part of the project of building a modern nation state. As heads of ...