The State Past, Present, Future

Preface viii

Tables x

Abbreviations xi

1 Introduction 1

Part I The State as Concept, Relation, and Reality 13

2 The Concept of the State 15

3 The State as a Social Relation 53

4 Power, Interests, Domination, State Effects 91

Part II On Territory, Apparatus, and Population 121

5 The State and Space-Time 123

6 State and Nation 148

7 Government + Governance in the Shadow of Hierarchy 164

Part III Past and Present (Futures) of the State 187

8 The World Market and the World of States 189

9 Liberal Democracy, Exceptional States, and the New Normal 211

10 The Future of States and Statehood 238