Resizing and Restructuring States: New World Sovereignty in a New World
摘要
What is the future of sovereignty? This work argues that the size and shape of nations is likely to continue to devolve, and the Americas offer a helpful laboratory for thinking about new forms of sovereignty because of their diverse experiments with decentralization. All parallels are imperfect, but the early Americas in particular provide unusually good examples of how small numbers of people with force projection problems cobble together cohesive polities across a range of geographic, economic, military, and ideological circumstances.