Studies on state formation that provide important political background to the conversion.
In this work the emphasis fell on evolutionary aspects of state formation.
The rate of state formation leveled off in the 1980s, at which point few colonies remained.
Her academic background is as a professor of international relations, with special expertise in state formation and regime change.
Much of the social contract philosophical traditional proposed a voluntary theory for state formation.
There are many differences among Africans, not only according to gender, class, ethnicity and religion, but also as a result of state formation.
In sharp contrast, decolonization was an entirely different process of state formation.
Two related theories are based on military development and warfare, and the role that these forces played in state formation.
Marvin Harris' early contributions to major theoretical issues include his revision of economic surplus theory in state formation.
The few examples of state formation which have been studied in detail are all significantly different in important respects.
