Erik Moberg
ASIN: B00IPRD6OW
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 440
Towards a Science of States: their Evolution and Properties is intended as a textbook for political science students at universities, but is also written for a broader public. Erik Moberg, the author, is a Swedish free-lance political scientist. Here are some opinions about the book:James N. Druckman, Northwestern University: "This is a book that will teach students and citizens about how the state works. The book covers nearly all forms of states—something virtually no other book does. It is a must read."Mark N. Franklin, European University Institute: "This wonderful book is written as a textbook but actually it is a work of theory—social science theory—regarding the nature of the state in history and in the modern world. It is about how states come into being, and why (and why there has, in the course of history, more often been anarchy). It is also about why states are of different ...