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The Nature and Development of the Modern State
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 99.95This text provides a broad-ranging introduction to the origins, role and future of the modern state and makes its own distinct contribution to tracing out continuities and changes especially in relation to the development of state capacity. more...
States Within States
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 100.00Many of the existing juridical states in the Third World remain fragile and prone to collapse. Yet, these conditions have not always given way to anarchy. In some cases, the breakdown of weak and often arbitrary states has given way to more coherent and viable, though not necessarily benevolent, political entities. This book examines the extent to... more...
New State Spaces
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 37.99Neil Brenner has in the past few years made a major impact on the ways in which we understand the changing political geographies of the modern state. Simultaneously analyzing the restructuring of urban governance and the transformation of national states under globalizing capitalism, 'New State Spaces' is a mature and sophisticated analysis... more...
Responses to Governance
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 80.00Provides a behaviorist perspective on governance. more...
Les traductions françaises du De regimine principum de Gilles de Rome
BRILL 2011; US$ 237.00This book deals with the different translations into Old French of Giles of Romes De regimine principum, dedicated to Philippe le Bel around 1279, and their readership. First-hand manuscript research has permitted us to understand not only the general context of their production but also the social conditions of their transmission and circulation.... more...
Nomad Citizenship
University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 83.00Nomad Citizenship argues for transforming our institutions and practices of citizenship and markets in order to release society from dependence on the state and capital. It changes Deleuze and Guattaris concept of nomadology into a utopian project with immediate practical implications, developing ideas of a nonlinear Marxism and of the slow-motion... more...
The Modern State
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. It examines the state from its historical origins at the birth of modernity to its current jeopardized position in the globalized politics of the 21st Century. The book has been entirely revised... more...
Politics with Purpose
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd. 2013; US$ 21.99Written by Lindsay Tanner?whose parliamentary career spans 18 years, culminating in his position as the minister for finance and deregulation in the Rudd?Gillard governments?this edited selection of his press articles, speeches, and occasional essays discusses a range of major subjects. From 1990 to 2012, this book delves into Labor?s problems and... more...
A History of Medieval Political Thought
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 34.95Incorporating research previously unavailable in English, this clear guide gives a synthesis of the latest scholarship providing the historical and intellectual context for political ideas. This accessible and lucid guide to medieval political thought * gives a synthesis of the latest scholarship * incorporates the results of research until now... more...
State: Historical and Political Dimensions
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 130.00Drawing on current debates on secessions within the United Kingdom, this book analyses the British State today and looks at its place in the future. Featuring original contributions from a variety of disciplines, this study tackles the problem of defining and studying the state and looks at the role the nation-state has played as the basic political... more...









