Most scholarship on the rise of the Khmer Rouge conforms to a state-centered framework.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cambodia: Revisiting the Killing Fields] Reference

Then there's all the state-centered balls, like the Texas Black Tie & Boots affair, which was very popular last time around.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2008] Reference

Even as the red star was disappearing, another one was rising, and it accentuated the tilt away from the state-centered economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commanding Heights] Reference

Finally, it concludes by showing how concepts from the sociology of law-legal mobilization, law/court effectiveness, and legal consciousness-can inform state-centered political studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

By freely adopting concepts from recent theoretical elaborations of the process of globalization, one may analyze the rise of the Khmer Rouge in a way that transcends the state-centered framework.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cambodia: Revisiting the Killing Fields] Reference

We will do all we can to deter and prevent destructive and threatening forces such as terrorism, WMD use, disruption of our critical infrastructures, and regional or state-centered threats from endangering our citizens.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Security Strategy For New Century] Reference

The United States, on the other hand, having woken up to the reality of globalization in the late 1990s, turned away from its ramifications after 9/11 and reverted to state-centered notions of the world and of its own power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superfusion] Reference

Thus, the trend has shifted towards encouraging decentralized, local and participatory forms of governance in contrast to the heavily top-down, state-centered systems of management that were extensively promoted in the 1950s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Protected areas] Reference

An understanding of globalization allows such a synthesis by transcending and undercutting the state-centered approach, and moving beyond simplistic ideological/cultural explanations, while not rejecting any of those as significant elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cambodia: Revisiting the Killing Fields] Reference

AIM rarely disseminates material from Mozambique's privately owned media, and so its state-centered and often openly partisan viewpoint may not reflect either the broader spectrum of print news available in the country or trends in popular thinking in Magude itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

The debate about whether liberal principles apply to all political communities should not be confused with the debate as to whether liberalism is a state-centered theory, or whether, at least ideally, it is a cosmopolitan political theory for the community of all humankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberalism] Reference

Modern China has turned to a state-centered finance model for this.    From Wordnik.com.  [MercatorNet] Reference

A second step requires redefining security not as state-centered, but as people-centered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Writers focused not on attributes of fascism as such, but on the "image of a supposedly modern, state-centered organization of society" (p. 61).    From Wordnik.com.  [MRZine.org] Reference

A state-centered approach to culture persisted through the early part of last century and reached its apogee under the rule of Gamal Abdel-Nasser.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

They sought diffusion of scientific and technical knowledge, formed highly centralized organizations, launched large-scale incorporated businesses, and pressed for an array of state-centered reforms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Jouyet was quoted in an article praising France's system for training the country's elite technocrats -- a state-centered approach that has been widely questioned over the past few years, but whose virtues suddenly seem more relevant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference

It will be important to encourage the government to continue making the necessary reforms to free the economy from the old state-centered model and to encourage greater market liberalization and entrepreneurship, so that it will be competitive once the global economy rebounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

I’m thinking what’s needed is a state-centered movement against the federal government.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Left, the Right and the American Public Couldn’t Stop 60 Votes - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState] Reference

10 minutes ago, -1/+6i'm gonna get dugg down for this but who cares if the founding fathers would completely approve or disapprove. it's a completely new era. yes, the principles of humanity (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness) are important. they would completely disagree with the size and reach of the federal government. however, the civil war completely changed the dynamic of state-centered government, too. and even before that, to survive as a fledgling nation, we had to centralize more power within the federal government.    From Wordnik.com.  [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference