THE STATE AND STATE-BUILDING

Bob Jessop

The state has been studied from many perspectives but no single theory can fully capture and explain its complexities. States and the interstate system provide a moving target because of their complex developmental logics and because there are continuing attempts to transform them. Moreover, despite tendencies to reify the state and treat it as standing outside and above society, there can be no adequate theory of the state without a wider theory of society. For the state and political system are parts of a broader ensemble of social relations and neither state projects nor state power can be adequately understood outside their embedding in this ensemble.

1 What is the State?
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This innocuous-looking question challenges anyone trying to analyze states. Some theorists deny the......

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Title: State And State Building Issues
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