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Networks and other forms of relationship between organizations

Part II turns to the question of how a state might acquire legitimate jurisdiction over a population of occupants

Openings seminar From mundane devices such asWhat is the difference between a natural beginning and the beginning of a story? Some deny that there are any beginnings in nature, except perhaps for the origin of the universe itself, suggesting that elsewhere we have only a continuum of events, into which beginnings are variously `read' by different societies. This book argues that history is full of real beginnings but that poets and novelists are indeed free to begin their stories wherever they