1. Introduction -- 2. The Economic Model -- 3. Intra-State Sequencing with Historical Examples -- 4. Drivers of Historical Sequences -- 5. International Sequencing with Historical Examples -- 6. Peacekeeping and Sequencing -- 7. Case Study: Secessionist Motives in the American Civil War -- 8....

This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end of the Middle Ages. New...