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Article: The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change.
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- Independent Review
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- March 22, 1998
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By Hendrik Spruyt Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. 288. $16.95.
Globalization, the "G" word of this decade, raises many challenges to the international system of nation-states. It opens the possibility--if not in political reality; then at least in our imaginations--that this network of institutions populated by national politicians, bureaucrats, warriors, and judges will gradually become less important relative to the transnational institutions and elites of the global economy.
Viewed from this globalist perspective, Hendrik Spruyt's book constitutes an intellectual "scoop," for it provides us with penetrating insights into the ...