There is an increasingly widespread sense in the study of the states of Asia and other regions outside ofEuropethat the state cannot be assumed to conform precisely to a Western blueprint. The observation has both a normative and a descriptive aspect. With respect to the first, it is no longer accepted that the modern state, as configured and understood in the West, is the ultimate and final destination of modern political development; with respect to the second, it is equally doubted that a reading of the Western state can provide a proximate and adequate description of the states of the rest of the world. The observation is of great importance precisely because of the entrenched and pervasive nature of the views challenged; that is to say, there is a deeply rooted sense in social science that the modern state, which evolved in Europe, is the privileged form of political modernity and there is, no less, a tendency to view ‘states elsewhere’ as more or less close and adequate facsimiles of the Western state… [download]
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