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Book SynopsisDebates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However, the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of different interpretations.
Trade ReviewA crowning achievement - Bob Jessop at his accessible best. An extraordinarily rich and important work in which the author combines his characteristic precision, range and analytical flair with that, oh so important, final ingredient - sheer accessibilty. A genuine tour do force and surely the point of departure for all subsequent scholarship on the state.
Colin Hay, Sciences Po, Paris "It is hard to think that anyone knows more about state theory than than Bob Jessop, and here he applies this encyclopaedic knowledge with great forensic skill."
Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsPreface viii
Tables x
Abbreviations xi
1 Introduction 1
Part I The State as Concept, Relation, and Reality 13
2 The Concept of the State 15
3 The State as a Social Relation 53
4 Power, Interests, Domination, State Effects 91
Part II On Territory, Apparatus, and Population 121
5 The State and Space–Time 123
6 State and Nation 148
7 Government + Governance in the Shadow of Hierarchy 164
Part III Past and Present (Futures) of the State 187
8 The World Market and the World of States 189
9 Liberal Democracy, Exceptional States, and the New Normal 211
10 The Future of States and Statehood 238
Notes 250
References 257
Index of Names 290
Subject Index 292
