Premodern Confederacies: Balancing Strategic Collective Action and Local Autonomy

A confederacy is generally understood to be a formal, institutionalized alliance of peoples who act in mutual support to achieve common ends. While the emergence and maintenance of early and pre-modern states have received tremendous scholarly attention in the social sciences, the same cannot be sai...

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Main Author: Jennifer Birch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Political Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2022.807239/full