The state we were in: parliament, centralization and English state formation / David Eastwood -- Wales and the British state: 'The outer form of subjugation' / D. George Boyce -- The state in independent Ireland / Mary E. Daly -- The state and Northern Ireland / Richard English -- Federal and confederal ideas in Scottish political culture / Christopher Harvie -- Member states and the European Union / Elizabeth Meehan -- State and public security / Charles Townshend -- The state and pro-state terrorism in Ireland / Steve Bruce -- The British state: sovereignty and identities / Bernard Crick -- Nations, states and religions / Ernest Gellner
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"The State, edited by Richard English and Charles Townshend, tackles the problems of defining and studying the state and the role the nation state has played as the basic political unit in Europe and throughout the world." "The State offers a comprehensive survey of the whole process of state-building over the last two centuries and considers the contemporary state as well as supra-states (such as the European Union). Drawing on the current debates on secessions within the United Kingdom, this book analyses the British state today and its place in the future."--Jacket