Later Security Confederations

In this volume Fredrick Lister examines security confederations of the modern eras; America''s confederal union during the winning of the Revolutionary War; Switzerland''s in post-Napoleonic Europe; and Germany''s during the turbulence of the Austro-Prussian Confrontation whose outcome transformed the European political scene. Lister concludes with an evaluation of the possibility that confederal-type ties might one day serve as a basis for global union.After setting forth the nature of confederal-type governance Lister provides three case studies that follow on the evolution of confederal political institutions in the United States Switzerland and Germany. Each section ends with a series of conclusions on the confederation examined. A thorough examination of a long-neglected subject that will be of interest to scholars students and researchers involved with world government and international relations.