Jan Kalenda: European State Formation: Authors, Models, and Theoretical Synthesis

Abstract

Review of Jan Kalenda's work issued in 2014 by Palacky University in Olomouc which for the first time in Czech language deals in a systematic manner with the social processes accompanying the formation of modern states in Europe and attempts to synthesize the existing theories in this field through a method of meta-theoretical analysis.

Keywords

• Jan Kalenda
• nation-state
• modern state formation
• social theory
• political sociology
• historical sociology