The Myth of International Order —— Why Weak States Persist and Alternatives to the State Fade Away

----- 国际秩序神话：为什么弱国在坚持和逐渐消逝国家的选择

ISBN: 9780190686710 出版年：2017 页码：273 Chowdhury, Arjun Oxford University Press

This ambitious book takes on a fundamental political puzzle: most states in the international system are 'weak' states, states unable to monopolize violence or provide public goods, and yet the nation-state remains the primary organizational form for world politics. In addressing this, Arjun Chowdhury shows why states everywhere face popular dissatisfaction with their performance, and why addressing this dissatisfaction - through institutional alternatives to the state like the European Union, or through higher taxation - is so difficult.