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The Small Nation Solution: How the World's Smallest Nations Can Solve the World's Biggest Problems
Author(s): John H. Bodley (Author)
- Publisher: AltaMira Press (UK)
- Publication Date: 16 May 2013
- Edition: Revised ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 314 pages
- ISBN-10: 0759122202
- ISBN-13: 9780759122208
Book Description
In The Small Nation Solution, eminent anthropologist John H. Bodley argues that the contemporary global problems of poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation are problems of scale and power. Bodley’s solution involves keeping nations small so as to limit the power of elite directors. It is a simple idea with profound implications. He spotlights successful small nations around the world as the best working models of sustainable sociocultural systems and shows how these diverse small nations can be the building blocks of a transformed global system that could save the world.
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About the Author
John H. Bodley (MA, PhD 1970, University of Oregon) is Regents Professor Emeritus at Washington State University, where he taught from 1970 to 2013. His research interests include indigenous peoples, cultural ecology, and contemporary issues with an emphasis on complexity, scale, and power.
