This book focuses on critical approaches to the state and state theory in the Global South. In light of the reemergence of the post-colonial and peripheral state as a crucial institution and actor in the 21st century’s capitalist world-system, the book examines the nature, functions and development dynamics of the state in the periphery, as well as its constituting interests and struggles. Drawing on the works of Poulantzas and Gramsci, dependency and world-systems theory, as well as the regulation school and the GermanAbleitungsdebatte, stategraphy and critical realism, it analyzes the...
This book focuses on critical approaches to the state and state theory in the Global South. In light of the reemergence of the post-colonial and perip...
