{"product_id":"state-power-hardback-9780745633206","title":"State Power (Hardback) 9780745633206","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eState Power\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBob Jessop (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745633206, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 December 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 16 x 2.8 cm, 0.689 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Jessop’s book draws upon extensive reading to provide some useful methodological pointers for analysing states and challenges crude approaches to state power, including simplistic oppositions of state and civil society, politics and economics, global and national.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInternational Socialism\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Definitive, in the fullest sense of the word, State Power represents the culmination of three decades of path-breaking work from the world’s most restlessly creative state theorist. This is Jessop’s \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJamie Peck, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Bob Jessop has long been one of the most outstanding and influential contemporary exponents of state theory. In his new book he returns to reconsider some of the theoretical sources of his own distinctive strategic-relational approach – Marx, Gramsci, Foucault, and, above all, Nicos Poulantzas – before, suitably refreshed, addressing more substantive issues. The resulting reflections will be of great value to anyone struggling to make sense of the state in the era of neo-liberal globalization.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlex Callinicos, \u003ci\u003eKing’s College London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Not for the first time, Bob Jessop's theoretically sophisticated and empirically astute dissection of social and political trends serves to breathe fresh life into the theory of the capitalist state. Yet what sets this work apart, above all, is the way in which it draws together three decades of profound insight into a tightly integrated framework for social, political and economic analysis. This, the most complete statement of the strategic-relational approach, should be required reading for all analysts, students and, ideally, all agents and subjects of state power.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eColin Hay, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Sheffield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBob Jessop presents an up-to-date account of his distinctive approach to the dialectics of structure and strategy in the exercise of state power. While his earlier work critically surveys other state theories, this book focuses on the development of his own strategic-relational approach. It introduces its main sources, outlines its development, applies this approach to four case studies, and sketches a strategic-relational research agenda. Thus the book presents a comprehensive theoretical statement of the approach and guidelines for its application. \u003cp\u003eKey features of the book include: an account of the authors theoretical development; a review of recent developments in state theory and the cultural turn in political economy; critical strategic-relational re-readings of major state theorists Marx on political representation, Gramsci on the spatiality of state power, Poulantzas on the state as a social relation, and the later Foucault on statecraft; applications of the strategic-relational approach to important issues concerning the contemporary state: its gendered selectivity, the future of the national state, the states temporal sovereignty, and the relevance of multi-scalar meta-governance in Europe for the more general future of the state. The book concludes with recommendations for future strategic-relational research in political economy and state theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Abbreviations. \u003cp\u003eList of Boxes, Figures and Tables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is the State?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Preliminary Definition of the State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Putting this Book in its Place’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: THEORIZING THE STATE\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e The Development of the Strategic-Relational Approach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThree Sources of the Strategic-Relational State Approach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe First Phase in the Strategic-Relational Approach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Second Phase of the Strategic-Relational Approach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Third Phase of the Strategic-Relational Approach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterim Strategic-Relational Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Bringing the State Back in (Yet Again).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Marxist Revival and the Strategic-Relational Approach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrategic-Relational Tendencies in the Second Wave.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Directions of Research.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II: SOURCES OF THE STRATEGIC-RELATIONAL APPROACH\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Marx on Political Representation and the State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat does The Eighteenth Brumaire accomplish?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Periodization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Political Stage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Social Content of Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe State Apparatus and Its Trajectory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore on Political Representation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e Gramsci on the Geography of State Power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpatializing the Philosophy of Praxis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGramsci and the Southern Question.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGramsci on Americanism and Fordism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGramsci on Territoriality and State Power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGramsci and International Relations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e Poulantzas on the State as a Social Relation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxist Theory and Political Strategy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Methodological Considerations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe State and Political Class Struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Relational Approach and Strategic Selectivity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRe-Reading Poulantzas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExceptional Elements in the Contemporary State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeriodizing the Class Struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Spatio-Temporal Matrix of the State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6.\u003c\/b\u003e Foucault on State, State Formation, and Statecraft.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFoucault and the “Crisis of Marxism”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoulantzas and Foucault compared.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Analytics of Power versus State Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFoucault as a Genealogist of Statecraft.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith Foucault beyond Foucault.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III APPLYING THE STRATEGIC-RELATIONAL APPROACH\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7.\u003c\/b\u003e The Gender Selectivities of the State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalyzing Gender Selectivities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender Selectivities in the State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrategic Selectivity and Strategic Action.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Representation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Architecture of the State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8.\u003c\/b\u003e Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Temporal Sovereignty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization Defined.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization and the Spatial Turn.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome Spatio-Temporal Contradictions of Globalizing Capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Implications of Globalization for (National) States.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9.\u003c\/b\u003e Multiscalar Metagovernance in the European Union.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eState-Centric Perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGovernance-Centric Approaches.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanges in Statehood in Advanced Capitalist Societies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe EU as a Schumpeterian Workfare Post-National Regime.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe European Union and Multiscalar Metagovernance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10.\u003c\/b\u003e Complexity, Contingent Necessity, Semiosis, and the SRA.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComplexity and Contingent Necessity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComplexity and the Selection of Selections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSemiosis and Complexity Reduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards a New Strategic-Relational Agenda.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginal Sources of Chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject 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