Myths about the state
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Review of International Studies
- Vol. 12 (1) , 1-11
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210500114093
Abstract
As a specialist in international politics, I have always believed that my primary business is to study states, those important political, legal and administrative units into which the world is divided. That preoccupation is not, of course, limited to my professional clan. All of political science, whether or not it is formally held to include international politics as a sub-discipline, focuses on the state, although it necessarily deals with other kinds of entity as well. Our academic brethren in such fields as history, economics and sociology also pay quite a lot of attention to the state. For that matter, no human being in today's world can escape the profound influence of the state, even though he may study nothing at all.Keywords
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