Expanding the Sovereign State System: 1648-2015

该项目旨在扩大我们对冲突，政治发展和政治秩序的性质的理解。国际体系如何影响政治发展和冲突的性质？关于这一主题的知识一直受到以欧洲为中心的主权国家概念的阻碍，由此产生的定量研究排除了许多非西方国家，并偏向于欧洲的经验。通过使用国家的文化中立的概念，并通过推动研究回到时间和空间，包括在1816年前的时期和世界非欧洲地区的国家，该项目的目的是研究模式在不同结构的国际体系中的领土冲突，国家谱系如何影响政治发展，以及国际秩序如何在区域上变化。

This project seeks to expand our understanding of the nature of conflict, political development and political order. How has the international system influenced political development and the nature of conflict? Knowledge on this topic has been hampered by a Eurocentric conception of the sovereign state, and the resulting quantitative research excludes numerous non-Western states and is biased toward the European experience. By using a culturally-neutral concept of the state, and by pushing the study back in time and across space to include states in the pre-1816 period and non-European regions of the world, the project aims to examine patterns in territorial conflict across differently structured international systems, how state genealogy affects political development, and how international order has varied regionally.