Cambridge University Press, 2003. 258 p.
This book provides students with a fresh overview of the main theories of the state found in Inteational Relations. The book surveys realist, liberal, Marxist, constructivist, postmode, postmode feminist and neo-Weberian approaches to the state, and places each perspective's view of the state in relation to its theory of IR as a whole. It offers readers a unique introduction to state theory in Inteational Relations in particular, and theories of IR more generally, and will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology and politics, as well as Inteational Relations.
What's at stake in the second state debate? Concepts and issues
Traditional theories of the state and inteational relations
Realism
Liberalism
Recent sociological theories of the state and inteational relations
Marxism
Constructivism
Weberian historical sociology
Conclusion: proposing a structurationist theory of the constitutive state and global politics Summarising and resolving the second state debate
This book provides students with a fresh overview of the main theories of the state found in Inteational Relations. The book surveys realist, liberal, Marxist, constructivist, postmode, postmode feminist and neo-Weberian approaches to the state, and places each perspective's view of the state in relation to its theory of IR as a whole. It offers readers a unique introduction to state theory in Inteational Relations in particular, and theories of IR more generally, and will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology and politics, as well as Inteational Relations.
What's at stake in the second state debate? Concepts and issues
Traditional theories of the state and inteational relations
Realism
Liberalism
Recent sociological theories of the state and inteational relations
Marxism
Constructivism
Weberian historical sociology
Conclusion: proposing a structurationist theory of the constitutive state and global politics Summarising and resolving the second state debate