The Sovereign State & It's Competitors - An Analtsis of Systems Change (Paper) : An Analysis of Systems Change

List of Maps and Tables ix Preface xi Introduction 3(6) PART I: CONTINGENCY, CHOICE, AND CONSTRAINT 9(50) Structural Change in International Relations 11(11) Neorealism and Its Critics: The Origins of the State as an Issue in International Relations 12(3) Variation in Units as Variation in Systems Structure 15(3) Unilinear Explanations of Change 18(2) The Fallacy of the Unilinear Evolutionary Image 20(2) Organizational Variation and Selection in the International System 22(12) A Nonlinear View of Evolutionary Change 22(3) A Proposed Causal Model for Explaining Institutional Variation and Selection 25(4) A Nonlinear Account of State Formation through War 29(5) Modes of Nonterritorial Organization: Feudalism, the Church, and the Holy Roman Empire 34(25) Feudalism: Rule by Personal Bonds 36(6) Universalist Claims of the Church 42(9) The Holy Roman Empire 51(4) Conclusion 55(4) PART II: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW MODES OF ORGANIZATION 59(92) The Economic Renaissance of the Late Middle Ages 61(16) The Catalyst: The Expansion of Trade and the Growth of Towns 61(6) Imagining the Sovereign State 67(9) Conclusion 76(1) The Rise of the Sovereign, Territorial State in Capetian France 77(32) The Beginning of the French State: The Consolidation of the Capetian Dynasty (987-1328) 78(4) Why the Emergence of the French State Does Not Follow from the Character of Warfare 82(4) The Confluence of Material Interests of Monarchy and Towns 86(16) Shared Perspectives and Social Coalitions 102(3) Conclusion 105(4) The Fragmentation of the German Empire and the Rise of the Hanseatic League 109(21) The Northern Renaissance and the Impact of Long-distance Commerce 112(1) Reasons and Consequences of German Fragmentation 113(9) Structure and Objectives of the Hanseatic League: ``Concordia Domi. Foris Pax'' 122(6) Conclusion 128(2) The Development of the Italian City-states 130(21) The Impact of Italian Luxury Trade 130(5) Centrifugal Forces in the Italian Kingdom and the Absence of a Royal-urban Alliance 135(7) City-state Rather than City-league 142(4) City-state and Sovereign, Territorial State Compared 146(3) Conclusion 149(2) PART III: COMPETITION, MUTUAL EMPOWERMENT, AND CHOICE: THE ADVANTAGES OF SOVEREIGN TERRITORIALITY 151(30) The Victory of the Sovereign State 153(28) The Conventional Explanation: Darwinian Selection by War 155(3) Advantages of Sovereign Territoriality over the Confederated City-league 158(14) Fragmented Sovereignty in the Italian City-states 172(6) The General Nature of Institutional Selection 178(1) Conclusion 179(2) PART IV: CONCLUSION 181(14) Character, Tempo, and Prospects for Change in the International System 183(12) The Dynamics of Change in the International System 183(5) Possible Scenarious for Contemporary Change 188(7) Notes 195(70) Bibliography 265(20) Index 285