This book has surveyed a great deal of work on the state and reflects the views of a variety of different authors.
As such, it is impossible to offer a simple conclusion that reflects all that diversity. Rather, we shall focus on two questions which, explicitly or implicitly, engage many of the contributors and return to some of the key themes raised in the Introduction. To what extent have theories of the state changed over the past few decades? Has the importance of the state, more specifically the nation state, declined in that period?
More on the topic This book has surveyed a great deal of work on the state and reflects the views of a variety of different authors.:
- There appears to be a veritable industry of academic work on globalization, which reflects, in turn, the way in which this term has entered into common currency in the media and even in public discourse.
- Like Henry Higgins who, through his work changed the object of his studies into something other than what it was, the purpose of the Marxist theory of the state is not just to understand the capitalist state but to aid in its destruction. (Wolfe 1974: 131)
- Creating a State for the Purpose of Imperial Rivalry: The Great Game and Afghanistan as ‘Graveyard of Empires’
- The Great Transformation
- A Variety of Penalties
- What This Book Is Not About
- Outline of the Book
- The Contributions in This Book
- Structure of the book
- What This Book Is About
- What moral ‘facts’ could lie behind the variety of moral notions — and what is often their bedrock, religious notions — which have manifested themselves in myriad institutions and norms of behaviour and which appear to be relative to time, place and circumstances?