To the extent that a base unit of society – usually conceived as an individual citizen – vests authority in a larger unit, such as the state or the local community, authority is centralized. The …

2006年7月13日 · State-centrism is a key concept in discussions of sovereignty, justice, and the global political order and of changes within that order. Thus we routinely hear: ‘that analysis is …

2020年12月1日 · This paper investigates political economic causes of lack of state centralization — and thus one of the factors keeping state capacity perennially low in many societies. We …

This essay first address how state centrism evolved in the principal theories in IR, then present the strengths and limitations of the state centric approach as a unit of analysis, followed by an …

2025年3月4日 · There is an inherent tension between centralism and localism in the state-making processes in the authoritarian state of China, with its centralization of authority over diverse …

State-centered theory (or state-centred federalism) is a political theory which stresses the role of the government on civil society. [1][2] It holds that the state itself can structure political life to …

In this article, I argue that the terms on which this critique is framed lead claims which are both too sweeping in their implications for a transformation to a post Westphalian system, and not …

Building a state apparatus with sufficient power to defend itself against other states and planning an increasingly complex society compel the centralization of the state, in the managerial …

国际法与国家之间的关系应如何界定、如何促进国际社会的良性运转,是一个在认识现代性国际法过程中值得深入思考并清晰论断的关键问题。 自17世纪现代国际法产生并逐渐定型,国际法律体 …

本文基于尺度政治理论，以乌克兰的去中心化改革为例，重点关注乌克兰国内行动者在去中心化改革中所采取的不同尺度策略。 研究发现，乌克兰危机是一个多尺度耦合的进程，俄乌冲突与 …