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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• About the Author
• Epigraph
• Notes
• 1 The Experiment
• Defining States and Empires
• The Long Age of Empires
• The World of States
• States Get Smaller
• The Age of Superstates
• Will the Experiment Succeed?
• Notes
• 2 Empires Always Die
• Elemental Hazards
• Dilemmas of Governance
• The First Dilemma: Control
• The Second Dilemma: Leadership
• The Third Dilemma: Creed
• Plotting Against History
• Notes
• 3 Are Superstates More Durable?
• A Changed World
• Persistent Hazards
• Persistent Dilemmas
• The First Dilemma: Control
• The Second Dilemma: Leadership
• The Third Dilemma: Creed
• The Long Soviet Shadow
• Notes
• 4 The United States: An Old Hazard Returns
• The Hazards of Empire
• Building an American Superstate
• The Sectionalist Revival
• Dilemmas at the Center
• Notes
• 5 India: The Centralizing Reflex
• Nehruvian Continuities
• Breakdown and Emergency
• The Millennial Regime
• The Return of Fissiparous Pressures
• Hindu Superglue
• History Repeating
• Notes
• 6 China: Authoritarian Dilemmas
• Three Continuities
• Four Dilemmas
• The Price of Survival
• Notes
• 7 The European Union: Cohesion without Coercion
• A New Leviathan?
• Is the EU in Control?
• Can the EU Decide?
• Muddling Through
• The European Paradox
• Notes
• 8 The COVID Test
• Beijing Mobilizes
• Washington Stumbles
• Hubris in Delhi
• Mortal Danger in Brussels
• Sen’s Mistake?
• Notes
• 9 How to Rule a Superstate
• A Fatal Path
• The Case for Devolution
• Leadership Structure
• Accepting Fragility
• Proceed With Caution
• Creedal Commitments
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• End User License Agreement