The Transformation of the State: Beyond the Myth of Retreat

The Transformation of the State: Beyond the Myth of Retreat
ISBN-10
0333982053
ISBN-13
9780333982051
Category
Political Science
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2004-03-04
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Author
Georg Sørenson

Description

Recent years have seen a range of theoretical challenges to traditional notions of state sovereignty and a burgeoning debate about the power of the state in the face of globalization and new forms of governance. In this important new text, Georg Sørensen provides a systematic assessment of the contemporary state, steering a middle course between those who argue the state is in retreat and their critics. In so doing he sheds new light on just what is actually changing in the nature of sovereign statehood, on changes in the relative power of different states and on the changing relationship between the domestic and external aspects of state power.

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