Including contributions from an international team of leading experts, this volume examines state making from a uniquely Asian perspective and reveals some of t

Britain’s main imperial possessions in Asia were granted independence in the 1940s and 1950s and needed to craft constitutions for their new states. Invariabl

A study of the relationship between environmental cooperation and state building in post-Soviet Central Asia.

“Statemaking and Territory in South Asia: Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)” seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the o

Fluid Iron is the first extended treatment of state formation in Southeast Asia from early to contemporary times and the first book-length analysis of Western h