:From the Nation State to Stateless Nations Bell, Tom W. creator text Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018 monographic xiii, 258p. Governments across the globe have begun evolving from lumbering bureaucracies into smaller, more agile special jurisdictions - common-interest developments, special economic zones, and proprietary cites. Private providers increasingly deliver services that political authorities formerly monopolized, inspiring greater competition and efficiency, to the satisfaction of citizens-qua-consumers. These trends suggest that new networks of special jurisdictions will soon surpass nation-states in the same way that networked computers replaced mainframes. In this groundbreaking work, Tom W. Bell describes the quiet revolution transforming governments from the bottom up, inside-out, worldwide, and how it will fulfil its potential to bring more freedom, peace, and prosperity to people everywhere includes conclusion, appendices and index United states Government Jurisdictions Democracy Law Economic zones United states 320.1 BEL-Y 9781316613924