Word: feudality
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...configurations. There is now a Burkina Faso, an Ivory Coast, a Kenya, a Nigeria, but the nation- state has been an imposition from the West, and a sometime thing. Once there was a Liberia (founded in the early 19th century by freed American slaves); now Liberia is splintered in feudal fashion. There are two Sudans, each at war with the other...
Historically, nationalism -- as distinct from nationality or patriotism -- is a fairly recent development. For a thousand years after the fall of Rome, people's loyalties were to their church, their lords, their rights and duties under the feudal system, to their guilds, eventually to their King...
Equal but Superior: Feudal and Administrative Subordination in 16th Century Japan--by Ronald Frank, postdoctoral fellow, Reischauer Institute. Coolidge Hall, Room...
Except, that is, at Harvard. At this University, feudal arrangements of justice still survive in 1992--most notably in the way the College deals with charges of rape and sexual assault brought by Harvard students against their peers. By allowing--and even encouraging--students to bring these types of criminal cases to the Administrative Board, Harvard has established a private judicial system right here in Cambridge...
...Like all feudal organizations, Harvard's judicial fiefdom doesn't care about its effect on neighboring areas outside its own jurisdiction--like the rest of America...