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Theorising African State Agency
This chapter provides a necessary state-theoretical complement to David Harvey’s spatio-temporal fix. It fist engages the existing literature on...
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Defence industrial power: understanding the UK’s post-Brexit role
The British government has argued that the UK’s first-class, knowledge-driven economy supports the country’s claim to be a global power. However, in...
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State (Re)-Building and Welfare State Development in Post-apartheid South Africa
Welfare state-building in post-apartheid South Africa is characterised by the refusal to shed the liberal-oriented outlook inherited from the...
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Power-Sharing in Nigeria’s Divided Society: Structures, Conflicts and Challenges
This chapter analyzes the politics of power-sharing in Nigeria. Nigeria’s power-sharing model exemplifies the hybrid power-sharing system given that...
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Vatican City State
Ager Vaticanus was the name given to a marshy area to the west of the city of Rome, close to the river Tiber. Uninhabited for much of Rome’s long...
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EU Soft Power: Digital Law
The world is facing a technological revolution where the internet is transforming our way of life in every dimension. The European Union (EU)—as the...
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Popular Power as Subject of Democratic Transformation: A New Power for the Emergence of Communal Democracy
Within the current systemic crisis is a profound political crisis of liberal democracy. Against this backdrop, all over the world disruptive and...
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The Transnational Emigration State
This chapter discusses the concept of Transnational Emigration State (TES) and its role in the management of emigration and the transnational flows...
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Islam, Muslims, and State
To understand Islam and Muslims in Indonesia, there is a need to scope them within the context of the Indonesian society and the state they are...
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“Debt Trap Theory”: The Logic of Power Politics in India
In recent years, the U.S.-led officials, media, and scholars have publicly criticized China for bringing a “debt trap” to the develo** countries,...
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The Dilemma of Good Governance Versus Power Grab in Georgia
This chapter deals with the problem of informal governance and the diffusion of “bad governance” practices in the context of regime transition and...
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Between role adaptation and contestation: the UK’s status as a nuclear weapon state after Brexit
The UK’s status as a nuclear weapon-state has been an integral part of the UK’s role in international affairs. This article traces several role...
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Get Smart: Combining Hard and Soft Power
In her confirmation hearings, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary ClintonClinton, Hillary said, “AmericaAmerica cannot solve the most pressing problems...
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Power and Interdependence
The second of the distinctions around which this book is organized is that between power and interdependence. Because of changes in technology,...
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Beyond Abstractionism: Notes on Conjunctural State Theory
In State, Power, Socialism, Nicos Poulantzas attempted to carve out a middle path for emancipatory political theory between the so-called roads of...
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State Fragility and Legitimacy “Beyond the State”
International academic circles, as well as decision-makers representing international humanitarian and aid organizations, are paying more and more...
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State
Some non-Marxist countries analyze the concept of “国家” (guojia, country/state), which has appeared long ago in ancient Chinese books. The Chinese...
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Introduction: Power-Sharing in the Global South
This chapter introduces the volume, discusses its key terms and case selection motivations, and summarizes the chapters that follow. The study of...
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State-Building and the Making of the Racially “Exclusive” Welfare State in South Africa
This chapter recounts the development of the welfare state in South Africa since the turn of the twentieth century. It reveals the circumstances...
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Theories of State Formation
This chapter provides an overview of theories of state formation and is intended to offer a comparative perspective. It provides a brief analysis of...