(P/B) THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ORDER

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Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins.Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. This book starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes right up to the eve of the French and American revolutions, spanning such diverse disciplines as economics, anthropology and geography.The Origins of Political Orderis a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal, by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today. (From the publisher)

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PREFACE
PART I: BEFORE THE STATE
1 THE NECESSITY OF POLITICS
2 THE STATE OF NATURE
3 THE TYRANNY OF COUSINS
4 TRIBAL SOCIETIES: PROPERTY, JUSTICE, WAR
5 THE COMING OF THE LEVIATHAN
PART II: STATE BUILDING
6 CHINESE TRIBALISM
7 WAR AND THE RISE OF THE CHINESE STATE
8 THE GREAT HAN SYSTEM
9 POLITICAL DECAY AND THE RETURN OF PATRIMONIAL GOVERNMENT
10 THE INDIAN DETOUR
11 VARNAS AND JATIS
12 WEAKNESSES OF INDIAN POLITIES
13 SLAVERY AND THE MUSLIM EXIT FROM TRIBALISM
14 THE MAMLUKS SAVE ISLAM
15 THE FUNCTIONING AND DECLINE OF THE OTTOMAN STATE
16 CHRISTIANITY UNDERMINES THE FAMILY
PART III: THE RULE OF LAW
17 THE ORIGINS OF THE RULE OF LAW
18 THE CHURCH BECOMES A STATE
19 THE STATE BECOMES A CHURCH
20 ORIENTAL DESPOTISM
21 STATIONARY BANDITS
PART IV: ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT
22 THE RISE OF POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY
23 RENTE SEEKERS
24 PATRIMONIALISM CROSSES THE ATLANTIC
25 EAST OF THE ELBE
26 TOWARD A MORE PERFECT ABSOLUTISM
27 TAXATION AND REPRESENTATION
28 WHY ACCOUNTABILITY? WHY ABSOLUTISM?
PART V: TOWARD A THEORY OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
29 POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICAL DECAY
30 POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, THEN AND NOW
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX