
Making a Modern Political Order
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Every political order depends on a set of shared expectations about how the order does and should work. In Making a Modern Political Order, James Sheehan provides a sophisticated analysis of these expectations and shows how they are a source of both cohesion and conflict in the modern society of nation states. The author divides these expectations into three groups: first, expectations about the definition and character of political space, which in the modern era are connected to the emergence of a new kind of state; second, expectations about the nature of political communities (that is, about how people relate to one another and to their governments); and finally, expectations about the international system (namely, how states interact in a society of nation states). Although Sheehan treats these three dimensions of the political order separately, they are closely bound together, each dependent on-and reinforcing-the others. Ultimately, he claims, the modern nation state must balance all three organizing principles if it is to succeed.
Sheehan's project begins with an examination of people's expectations about political space, community, and international society in the premodern European world that came to be called the "ancien regime." He then, in chapters on states, nations, and the society of nation states, proceeds to trace the development of a modern political order that slowly and unevenly replaced the ancien regime in Europe and eventually spread throughout the world. To close, he offers some speculations about the horizon ahead of us, beyond which lies a future order that may someday replace our own.
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"This fine book manages to cover more ground in its short span than do many books two or three times its length. Students at many levels, from the undergraduate to the postdoctoral, will learn much from it." -Perspectives on Political Science"Sheehan's conclusions capture the balance of change and continuity in human experience." -Law & Liberty
"This is a wonderful book. Sheehan is a gifted historian, the subject perennially important, large themes clearly announced and pursued, an impressive range of secondary materials adroitly deployed, the writing unobtrusive yet graceful." -Nicholas Greenwood Onuf, author of The Mightie Frame
"In a time when scholars regularly call for big-picture histories that tackle global themes, this is the rare book that actually accomplishes that goal." -Alexander M. Martin, author of Enlightened Metropolis
"Sheehan's book asks us to reconsider which social theorist lurks more influentially behind the issue of state formation and so-called world order: Hobbes or Marx?" -Journal of Modern History
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: "Horizons of Expectation"
1. The Ancien Regime
2. Making States Modern
3. Nations
4. A Society of Nation States
Conclusion: Beyond the Horizon
Bibliography
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