Introduction to Comparative Politics
The Simple Story of the Course in a Flow Chart
The Modern Nation-State
People subsume their particularistic loyalties to a larger symbolic community
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The Foundation is Modernity
People Reformulate their Identities
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What happens when modern and traditional worlds collide?
Weak or non-existent Nation-States
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Are we the end of history?
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