{"pk":38109,"title":"State and Socio-Political Crises in the Process of Modernization","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The issue of the state and statehood is a principal one in social studies, whatever its aspect we consider. In this respect it is worth pointing out the growing interest to the problems of nation-building and state-building. So the state-building is regarded as a key objective, particularly in ‘fragile states’. At the same time we should agree with Peter Turchin, that ‘nation-builders today do not have such a theoretical framework’, while conceptual weakness of the nation-building theory can be diminished with the help of evolutionary science. The present article attempts to advance a bit in this regard.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77d3q9zd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Leonid","middle_name":"","last_name":"Grinin","name_suffix":"","institution":"Eurasian Center for Big History and System forecasting","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-04-06T13:02:09+01:00","date_accepted":"2012-04-06T13:02:09+01:00","date_published":"2012-06-30T08:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cliodynamics/article/38109/galley/28678/download/"}]}