The nation-state in question / edited by T.V. Paul, G. John Ikenberry, and John A. Hall.

Nation-states in history / John A. Hall -- Nationalism, popular sovereignty, and the liberal democratic state / Bernard Yack -- What states can do with nations: an iron law of nationalism and federation? / Brendan O'Leary -- A statewithout a nation? Russia after empire / Anatoly M. Khazanov -- The return of the coercive state: behavioral control in multicultural society / Peter Baldwin --States, security function, and the new global forces / T.V. Paul -- States and war in Africa / Jeffrey Herbst -- National legislatures in common markets: autonomy in the European Union and Mercosur / Francesco Duina -- The tax state in theinformation age / Christopher Hood -- States, politics, and globalization: why institutions still matter / John L. Campbell -- Globalization, the state, and industrial relations: common challenges, divergent transitions / Rudra Sil -- The state after state socialism: Poland in comparative perspective / Grzegorz Ekiert-- Rotten from within: decentralized predation and incapacitated state/