What Is a State If It Is Not a Sovereign

The emergence of the new states of Asia and Africa after the decolonization revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s has resulted in a renewed concern with the problems of government in multiethnic, multireligious, and multilinguistic countries. I discuss the issues thus produced, including the viability of states that are not underpinned by a compact and sovereign nation, and the role anthropology can play in clarifying such issues

Decolonization · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereign state · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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