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082			_a320.12 _bAVI.C
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100			_aACHARYA, Avidit & LEE, Alexander
245			_aCartel system of states : an Economic theory of International Politics
260			_bOxford University Press _c2023 _aUK
300			_a207p.
520			_aWhy are the citizens of neighboring regions that lie across an international border often subject to very different governance systems? In The Cartel System of States, Avidit Acharya and Alexander Lee provide a powerful and field-shaping theory to address a fundamental issue in world politics: the character of the territorial nation-state. They contend that the defining feature of the modern territorial state system works as an economic cartel in which states have local, bounded monopolies in governing their citizens. States refuse to violate each other's monopolies, even when they could do so easily. Drawing from the centuries long process of modern state formation, The Cartel System of States explains both how the present system of territorial states--by no means a foregone conclusion in retrospect--took over the world and how it might change in the future.
700			_aAlexander Lee
942			_cGEN _2CC
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