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The Later Security Confederations The American, "New" Swiss, and German Unions
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Frederick K. Lister
Book Code: GM1801
ISBN: 0-313-31801-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31801-6
248 pages, maps
Greenwood Press
Publication: 2/28/2001
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Political Science
Series Number: 391
Reviews:
  • By examining the Confederation of the United States (1781-1787), the Swiss Confederation (1815-1848), and the German Confederation (1815-1866), this book makes and important and timely contribution to the renewed interest in confederalism. Lister provides a rich contextual analysis of the political, social, and economic conditions leading to confederation in each case, a detailed examination of the constitutional texts, and a persuasive argument why these confederations were eventually turned into federal states.
    —Publius: The Journal of Federalism     Spring 2002
Description: In this volume, Fredrick Lister examines security confederations of the modern eras; America's confederal union during the winning of the Revolutionary War; Switzerland's in post-Napoleonic Europe; and Germany's during the turbulence of the Austro-Prussian Confrontation whose outcome transformed the European political scene. Lister concludes with an evaluation of the possibility that confederal-type ties might one day serve as a basis for global union. After setting forth the nature of confederal-type governance, Lister provides three case studies that follow on the evolution of confederal political institutions in the United States, Switzerland, and Germany. Each section ends with a series of conclusions on the confederation examined. A thorough examination of a long-neglected subject that will be of interest to scholars, students, and researchers involved with world government and international relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Confederal Governance in States of Greatly Varying Size and Power
  • The Confederation of the United States
  • The "New" Swiss Confederation
  • The German Confederation
  • Summing Up the Theory and Practice of Security Confederations
  • Index
LC Card Number: 00-061702
LCC Class: JC357
Dewey Class: 321
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