Download or read book The Project-State and Its Rivals written by Charles S. Maier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Maier offers a new narrative of the long twentieth century, focused on institutions that shaped politics and societies: project-states, driven by democratic or authoritarian ideologies; capital; and advocates of apolitical values, such as health, human rights, and international law. In this we discern the unfolding of our own troubled time.