Reviews for The Nordic parliaments

The average rating for The Nordic parliaments based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-04-13 00:00:00 Pamela Mayer The book describes history of the state and nation-state, its formation, different forms and current challenges that the territorial state faces. I liked the insightful examples about imperial and feudal states before and nation-states, managerial states after the Westphalian order. However, the book is a historical introduction which I found less informative for me because I expected more and detailed historical, theoretical and philosophical information about the state or nation-state. Despite the book cover, the book failed to discuss more about ideas of Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Max Weber and other important philosophers (their ideas are rarely mentioned). The Westphalian order of IR, especially the period of XVII-XVIII centuries are not detailed and even other systems of IR as Vienna, Versailles-Washington and Yalta – Potsdam systems which had a significant impact on global order and nation-state are not considered in this book. However, this book is very good introduction to politics. Therefore, it is highly recommended for junior students of political science.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-06-21 00:00:00 Alan Moon You can tell that Peters is brilliant when reading this book; the problem is that I am definitely less brilliant and not well versed in this topic. It is definitely not a very easy read. I had to read each sentence about twice to get the gist of what he was saying, and even then I wasn't always sure, but what I did get was fairly interesting. I had to read this book for a class, otherwise I never would have finished it.