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Steering a Developmental Party-State: Why Has China Chosen Centralization of Power to Fight Corruption?
Anti-corruption and centralization of power have defined China’s political changes since October 2012. This article attempts to explain why China has...
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State Smart Power Strategies
“The concept of ‘smart powerSmart power’—the intelligent integration and networking of diplomacy, defense, development, and other tools of so-called...
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State Failure, Power Expansion, and Balance of Power in the Middle East The Struggle Over Failed States
This book examines the strategies of regional powers in the Middle East regarding their response to cases of state failure in the region, thus...
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Military Privatization and the Evolution of State Power
Drawing on military history and historical sociology, the chapter challenges some of the oversimplifications attached to the notion of a state...
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Small power strategies under great power competition
This article presents a theoretical argument, defined as tension theory, to explain how the strategies of small powers during eras of great power...
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World Power Trends and International Relations: Measuring Power with an Entropy-QAP Approach
National power has been an important discriminative signal for the evolution of great power competition and international patterns in recent years,...
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The Capitalist State at the Center: A Critique of Michel Foucault’s Concept of Power
This chapter engages in a debate with Michel Foucault, criticizing his conception of “diffuse power.” This critique serves to explain why, in the...
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Great Power Competition and Pakistan: A Power Transition Theory Perspective 1947–1991
The present study investigates great power competition and its ramifications for Pakistan in the South Asian regional hierarchy during the Cold War....
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Syria (2011–2020): From a Revisionist Power into a Conquered State
The state failure in Syria represents a unpredictable case which can only be explained by the drastic incoherence between the respective share of...
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Constitutional State Powers
This chapter scrutinizes the rival envisionings of state institutions in the debates of the Constituent Assembly held between May and September 1978....
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The Concept of Power in Engels’s Theory of the State
In this chapter, I analyze Engels’s interpretation of the state and state power in his Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. I...
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Power in the Age of Datafication: Exploring China’s Global Data Power
Anxieties about China’s growing data power have begun to drive geopolitical and technological competition. Yet, the size of Chinese data power is...
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Hegemony and the dynamics of power: a Gramscian update for the study of power in IR
The study of power in IR has produced insightful typologies, but the persisting paradigmatic divisions induce problems that stifle further progress....
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Shifting Relations Between Islamic Non-State and State Actors in Turkey
Islam in Turkey and the core state apparatus albeit strictly secular have been always in strong interaction especially since the beginning of...
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Iraq (2003–2020): From a Bulwark Power into a Failed State
The failure of the Iraqi state is rooted in its external war adventures, international sanctions, and internationally conducted regime change. Iraq...
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National Power and International Geostructure
This book addresses three innovative aspects for the study of International Relations: first, proposes a novel theoretical-methodological framework...
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War, State and Sovereignty Interdisciplinary Challenges and Perspectives for the Social Sciences
This book addresses the links between war, state and sovereignty using an interdisciplinary approach. The authors and editors investigate the...
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Local Power Structure in an Indian State
As we shift our focus from China to India, we notice that local power structure in the latter is closely linked with the panchayati raj, the key...
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A Dual State in Turkey?
In research on authoritarianism in Turkey and beyond, there is a growing interest in Ernst Fraenkel’s concept of the dual state from the Nazi era....
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Cosmopolitanism: Power Matters
Cosmopolitanism is known primarily as a moral vision of world citizenship that transcends borders and political divisions. Rather than assuming a...