TY  - BOOK
AU  - Acharya,Avidit
AU  - Lee,Alexander
TI  - The cartel system of states: an economic theory of international politics 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780197632307
AV  - JC323 .A35 2022
U1  - 320.12 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Borderlands
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Territory, National
KW  - International relations
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - State, The
N1  - Also issued in print: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Why are the citizens of neighboring regions that lie across an international border often subject to very different governance systems? Avidit Acharya and Alexander Lee provide a powerful and field-shaping theory to address a fundamental issue in world politics: the character of the territorial nation-state. They contend that the defining feature of the modern territorial state system works as an economic cartel in which states have local, bounded monopolies in governing their citizens
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197632260.001.0001
ER  -