Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and at the George Mason University School of Public Policy. He was a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served as the deputy director in the State Department’s policy planning staff. He is the author of The End of History and the Last Man, Trust, and America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy. He lives with his wife in California.
Preface | p. ix |
Before the State | |
The Necessity of Politics | p. 3 |
The State of Nature | p. 26 |
The Tyranny of Cousins | p. 49 |
Tribal Societies: Property, Justice, War | p. 64 |
The Coming of the Leviathan | p. 80 |
State Building | |
Chinese Tribalism | p. 97 |
War and the Rise of the Chinese State | p. 110 |
The Great Han System | p. 128 |
Political Decay and the Return of Patrimonial Government | p. 139 |
The Indian Detour | p. 151 |
Varnas and Jatis | p. 162 |
Weaknesses of Indian Polities | p. 175 |
Slavery and the Muslim Exit From Tribalism | p. 189 |
The Mamluks Save Islam | p. 202 |
The Functioning and Decline of the Ottoman State | p. 214 |
Christianity Undermines the Family | p. 229 |
The Rule of Law | |
The Origins of The Rule of Law | p. 245 |
The Church Becomes a State | p. 262 |
The State Becomes a Church | p. 276 |
Oriental Despotism | p. 290 |
Stationary Bandits | p. 303 |
Accountable Government | |
The Rise of Political Accountability | p. 321 |
Rente Seekers | p. 336 |
Patrimonialism Crosses the Atlantic | p. 355 |
East of the Elbe | p. 373 |
Toward a More Perfect Absolutism | p. 386 |
Taxation and Representation | p. 402 |
Why Accountability? Why Absolutism? | p. 422 |
Toward a Theory of Political Development | |
Political Development and Political Decay | p. 437 |
Political Development, then and Now | p. 458 |
Notes | p. 485 |
Bibliography | p. 535 |
Acknowledgments | p. 557 |
Index | p. 559 |
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