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Bounding power; republican security theory from the polis to the global village.


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Bounding power; republican security theory from the polis polis

In ancient Greece, an independent city and its surrounding region under a unified government. A polis might originate from the natural divisions of mountains and sea and from local tribal and cult divisions.
 to the global village.

Deudney, Daniel H.

Princeton U. Press

2007

391 pages

$35.00

Hardcover

JZ5588

Fearing that existing conceptual frameworks For the concept in aesthetics and art criticism, see .

A conceptual framework is used in research to outline possible courses of action or to present a preferred approach to a system analysis project.
 cannot cope with the intensifying processes of globalization globalization

Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation
, particularly concerning security, Deudney (political science, Johns Hopkins Noun 1. Johns Hopkins - United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)
Hopkins

2.
 U.) seeks to provide a usable past as a foundation on which to build more enduring structures. In a work of theory and historical theoretical interpretation, he traces the development of Western political thought about security-from-violence as one of avoiding extremes of hierarchy and anarchy in material contexts that are changing due to technological developments.

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