TY - BOOK ID - 19324586 TI - Logics of Hierarchy PY - 2011 SN - 0801443865 1322503125 0801474833 0801462495 9780801443862 0801466393 9780801462498 9780801474835 9780801466397 PB - Ithaca, NY DB - UniCat KW - International relations. KW - Comparative organization. KW - Comparative government. KW - Imperialism. KW - Military occupation. KW - Belligerent occupation KW - De facto doctrine (International law) KW - Occupation, Military KW - Occupied territory KW - Colonialism KW - Empires KW - Expansion (United States politics) KW - Neocolonialism KW - Comparative political systems KW - Comparative politics KW - Government, Comparative KW - Political systems, Comparative KW - Coexistence KW - Foreign affairs KW - Foreign policy KW - Foreign relations KW - Global governance KW - Interdependence of nations KW - International affairs KW - Peaceful coexistence KW - World order KW - Organisation comparée KW - Occupation militaire KW - Internationale politiek. KW - Armed Forces in foreign countries KW - War (International law) KW - Conquest, Right of KW - Military government KW - Political science KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Caesarism KW - Chauvinism and jingoism KW - Militarism KW - Organization KW - Organizational sociology KW - National security KW - Sovereignty KW - World politics KW - Relations internationales KW - Institutions politiques comparées KW - Impérialisme UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19324586 AB - Political science has had trouble generating models that unify the study of the formation and consolidation of various types of states and empires. The business-administration literature, however, has long experience in observing organizations. According to a dominant model in this field, business firms generally take one of two forms: unitary (U) or multidivisional (M). The U-form organizes its various elements along the lines of administrative functions, whereas the M-form governs its periphery according to geography and territory.In Logics of Hierarchy, Alexander Cooley applies this model to political hierarchies across different cultures, geographical settings, and historical eras to explain a variety of seemingly disparate processes: state formation, imperial governance, and territorial occupation. Cooley illustrates the power of this formal distinction with detailed accounts of the experiences of Central Asian republics in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, and compares them to developments in the former Yugoslavia, the governance of modern European empires, Korea during and after Japanese occupation, and the recent U.S. occupation of Iraq.In applying this model, Logics of Hierarchy reveals the varying organizational ability of powerful states to promote institutional transformation in their political peripheries and the consequences of these formations in determining pathways of postimperial extrication and state-building. Its focus on the common organizational problems of hierarchical polities challenges much of the received wisdom about imperialism and postimperialism. ER -