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Why do powerful states like the U.S. , U.K.

War is a paradox. On the one hand, it destroys bodies and destroys communities. On the other hand, it is responsible for some of the strongest human bonds and has been the genesis of many of our most fundamental institutions.

Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade away, the historical record and contemporary events show otherwise.

States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions on Earth, exercising vast and varied authority over the economic well-being, health, welfare, and very lives of their citizens.

* Provides a concise political and sociological introduction to social policy. * Helps readers to grasp the nature of social programs and the political struggles surrounding them. * Takes a broad comparative and historical viewpoint of social policy in the developed world.

Since the late eighteenth century, politics, protest, and the state have evolved together, each shaping the other in significant ways. This title shows how the modern national state developed in tandem with social movement mobilization, arguing that to understand the state fully, you cannot ignore the role of political protest.

Many of us may have participated in grassroots groups, changing the world in small and big ways, from building playgrounds and feeding the homeless, to protesting wars and ending legal segregation.