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Rediscovering the state.
Simply put, our post-war institutions were built for an inter-national world, but we now live in a global world.
Kofi Annan There may have been a time when both the theory and the practice of world affairs was too state centric, when the role of civil society, the private sector, and transnational regimes was little understood or appreciated. But that was a decade or more ago--before the end of the Cold War, the acceleration of European integration, and the promise of multi-lateralism led to a refocusing on the subnational, transnational, and international dimensions of political life. This reorientation has produced some valuable insights and a more nuanced fe...See the full content of this document
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