Beyond States and Empires: Chiefdoms and Informal Politics

IF 0.3 Q4 SOCIAL ISSUES
P. Chabal, G. Feinman, P. Skalník
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At the very beginning of the twenty-first century, the sovereignty and near supremacy of the state are being challenged. Barely half a century ago, some scholars envisaged an inevitable or direct historical path to more consolidated and larger polities: a world government, possibly a planetary state, at the very least a concert of nation-states (Carneiro 1978; Hart 1948). Now this appears to have been a flight of fancy. Even in the face of a revolution in telecommunications and a powerful process of economic globalisation, it has become evident that there has been no linear progression in political development or centralisation. Political philosophers may find the prospect of an unstoppable march towards homogeneous polities desirable or immoral. Social scientists simply register the forces which go against it and, indeed, which may well pose dangers to the nation-state as it evolved during the last two centuries. Globalisation, the quest for democracy, as well as new processes of collective identification, have enabled people to become
超越国家与帝国:酋邦与非正式政治
在二十一世纪初,国家的主权和近乎至高无上的地位正受到挑战。仅仅半个世纪前,一些学者就设想了一条通往更巩固、更大政治的不可避免或直接的历史道路:一个世界政府,可能是一个行星国家,至少是一个民族国家的联盟(Carneiro 1978;哈特1948)。现在看来,这是一种幻想。即使面对电信革命和强大的经济全球化进程,很明显,政治发展或中央集权并没有线性发展。政治哲学家可能会发现,不可阻挡地走向同质政治的前景是可取的或不道德的。社会科学家只是简单地记录了反对它的力量,事实上,在过去两个世纪的民族国家发展过程中,这些力量很可能对民族国家构成危险。全球化、对民主的追求以及新的集体认同过程使人们成为
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