Toward a Critical Theory of States: The Poulantzas-Miliband Debate after Globalization

by Clyde W. Barrow

Book Overview

We have recently lived through the turmoil of a global financial crisis that originated in the United States and, despite the platitudes of neo-liberal ideology, nation-states were deeply involved in managing this crisis. If "the state" is again a preeminent actor in the global economy, then state theory and the problem of the state should also return to the forefront of political theory. Toward a Critical Theory of States is an intensive analysis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438461798
• ISBN13: 9781438461793
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"