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

 

 

The Foundation is Modernity

People Reformulate their Identities

 

Organization Chart

 

 

Organization Chart

 


What happens when modern and traditional worlds collide?

Weak or non-existent Nation-States

 

Are we the end of history?

 

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