1st Edition
The Post-Colonial State in the Era of Capitalist Globalization Historical, Political and Theoretical Approaches to State Formation
By Tariq Amin-Khan
Copyright 2012
262 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
262 Pages
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State formation in post-colonial societies differed greatly from the formation of the Western capitalist state. The latter has been extensively studied, while a coherent grasp of the post-colonial state has remained elusive. Amin-Khan provides a critical historical and contemporary understanding of post-colonial state formations in Asia and Africa, and suggests how this process differed from the... Read more
Introduction 1. Context of State Formation: Differentiating European Nation-States from Colonial and Post-Colonial States 2. The Post-Colonial State: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Impositions 3. Theoretical Understanding of the Post-Colonial State 4. India: The Capitalist Variant 5. Pakistan: The Proto-Capitalist State
Biography
Tariq Amin-Khan is Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
