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Aquinas: Political Writings
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 26.00In this major addition to the Cambridge Texts series Robert Dyson has chosen texts by Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) that manifest the full range of his thinking. The lucid translations are supported by many features designed to assist the student reader, including brief biographies and a concise critical introduction. more...
Paradigm Lost
University of Minnesota Press 2002; US$ 75.00This volume seeks to enrich and complicate current political debates by bringing state theory back to the fore and assessing its relevance to the social phenomena and thought of our day. more...
The Critique of the State
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 32.00Bartelson argues that we cannot imagine what might lurk 'beyond' the state, because our basic concepts of political order are conditioned by our experience of statehood. Bartelson's critique of the concept of statehood will interest scholars and students of political theory and social theory, and philosophy of social science. more...
Rethinking Governance
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 47.00This book seeks to make key developments in political science relevant to discussions about governance. more...
The Degradation of the International Legal Order?
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 63.95Providing the basis for critical engagement with the pessimism of the contemporary age, The Degradation of the International Legal Order? argues passionately for a rehabilitation of the honour of historic events and processes, and of their role in generating legal concepts. Drawing primarily from the Marxian tradition, but also engaging with... 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...
State/Space
Wiley 2008; US$ 142.95This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings together diverse analyses of state space in historical and contemporary capitalism. The first volume to present an accessible yet challenging overview of the changing geographies of state power under capitalism. A unique, interdisciplinary collection of contributions by major theorists and analysts... more...
Changes of State
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 39.95This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. Annabel Brett takes a fresh approach by looking at this political entity from the perspective of its boundaries and those who crossed them. She begins with a classic debate from the Spanish sixteenth century over... 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...
The Rise and Decline of the State
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 30.00The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important of all modern institutions, is in decline. Many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. This unique volume traces the history of the state from its beginnings to the present day. more...









