Family Power: Kinship, War and Political Orders in Eurasia, 500-2018 by Peter Ha

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Combining political science with history, this book presents a new history and theory of how political order developed in Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East, explaining why some empires and states succeed and others fail. Elite families and dynasties are shown to be crucial to state formation.

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Since the seventeenth century, scholars have argued that kinship as an organizing principle and political order are antithetical. This book shows that this was simply not the case. Kinship, as a principle of legitimacy and in the shape of dynasties, was fundamental to political order. Throughout the last one and a half millennia of European and Middle Eastern history, elite families and polities evolved in symbiosis. By demonstrating this symbiosis as a basis for successful polities, Peter Haldén unravels long-standing theories of the state and of modernity. Most social scientists focus on coercion as a central facet of the state and indeed of power. Instead, Halden argues that much more attention must be given to collaboration, consent and common identity and institutions as elements of political order. He also demonstrates that democracy and individualism are not necessary features of modernity.

Author Biography

Peter Haldén is Associate Professor in the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm

Table of Contents

1.Introduction; 2.How Social Science Separated Families from Political Order; 3.Formless Kinship in Formless Kingdoms. Europe c.500-c.1000; 4.Consolidating Dynasties and Realms. Europe c.1000-c.1500; 5.Strong Aristocracies in Strong States. Europe c.1500-c.1800; 6.The Revival and Sudden Death of Political Kinship. Europe c.1800-1918; 7.The Arab Empires 632-c.900; 8.Sacred Yet Supple. Kinship and Politics in Turkic-Mongol Empires c.900-c.1300; 9.The Ubiquitous and Opaque Elites of the Ottoman Empire c.1300-c.1830; 10.Clans and Dynasties in the Modern Middle East: Somalia and Saudi Arabia; 11.Conclusions: Implications For State Theory, Power and Modernity; Bibliography; Index.

Review

In a time where Charles Tilly's bellicist explanation of state formation processes seems to dominate, Peter Haldén has made an important and outstanding contribution to the literature which partly argues that kinship was of major importance to the political order emerging in Europe and the Middle East and partly proves that not only coercion but also collaboration, negotiations and consent were essential aspects of the political orders. There is no doubt that this will become a seminal text in reintroducing the kinship as a key concept to understand the development of political orders and political institutions. It is really a work of clarity and depth which ought to set the agenda for the debates about European state formation processes. Lars Bo Kaspersen, Copenhagen Business SchoolIn a pathbreaking study of extraordinary historical and comparative scope, Halden brings the family back into politics from the shadow world to which it has been relegated by modern social science. He shows just how central kinship groups are to the creation and success of political orders and develops a richer understanding of the state that decenter's Weber's emphasis on violence and bureaucracy. Richard Ned Lebow, King's College London

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Explains why successful states and empires have developed by fostering collaboration between families and dynasties, and the state.

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In a time where Charles Tilly's bellicist explanation of state formation processes seems to dominate, Peter Hald

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Explains why successful states and empires have developed by fostering collaboration between families and dynasties, and the state.

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Combining political science with history, this book presents a new history and theory of how political order developed in Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East, explaining why some empires and states succeed and others fail. Elite families and dynasties are shown to be crucial to state formation.

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Combining political science with history, this book presents a new history and theory of how political order developed in Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East, explaining why some empires and states succeed and others fail. Elite families and dynasties are shown to be crucial to state formation.

Details ISBN1108495923 Author Peter Halden Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 1108495923 ISBN-13 9781108495929 Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 386 Publication Date 2020-03-19 Short Title Family Power Language English UK Release Date 2020-03-19 AU Release Date 2020-03-19 NZ Release Date 2020-03-19 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises Subtitle Kinship, War and Political Orders in Eurasia, 500–2018 Alternative 9781108863612 DEWEY 950 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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