Download or read book Societies, Corporations and the Nation State written by Erwin K. Scheuch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers, from the 1997 Cologne conference of the International Institute of Sociology, are written by major, contemporary sociologists. A number of issues are discussed, including freedom of societies; the privatisation of belief, ethnicity, and globalisation; East-West relations; and institutional rehabilitation.