Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns

Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns

Editorial Reviews
Geoffrey Best, The Times Literary Supplement
All may ... welcome [Thomson] as a fellowgrappler with that protean problem that confronts historians and ... social scientists alike: the shortcomings of international society [today], and the degree to which those shortcomings are attributable to the idea that `sovereign states' have of themselves, and the self-interested ways they tend to behave within it.

Francis X. Hartigan, Terrorism and Political Violence
Strike[s] at the heart of [the] assumption that a monopoly on violence is the hallmark of the state, ... [Thomson] is correct when she advises us that `state' and `sovereignty' are more mutable concepts than we might acknowledge or even admit. [A] major contribution to our understanding of international affairs and to the history of state building.

Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns

Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns,Janice E. Thomson,Princeton University Press,0691025711,General,History - General History,International Relations - General,Military Science,Politics/International Relations,Political Science / History & Theory,Political Science and International Relations

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