After the Empires

P.W. Preston is Professor Emeritus at the University of Birmingham, UK, and has taught comparative politics over many years at universities in Scotland, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and China.

• 1. State-Empires and the Shift to the Modern World 2. State-Empire Systems: The Players 3. State-Empire Systems: The Logics 4. State-Empire Systems: The Fracture Lines 5. General Crisis: System Failure and Collapse 6. State-Empire Dissolution 7. After the State-Empires: Territories, States, Nations and Development 8. Powerful Regions and the Surprising Costs of Success