The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State

Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies Cornell University This magnificent collection takes stock of what modern social science tells us about state transformations in a variety of periods, locales and levels. The editors have succeeded in the hardest of tasks, providing a robust framework that guides the essays of leading scholars. This Handbook is both a long-awaited, indispensable compendium and an enduring testimony to exceptional scholarship.

Jonah D. Levy is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley. He received his A.B. (1984) from Harvard University and his Ph.D. (1994) from MIT. His work focuses on state transformations, economic and social policy, and the politics of the affluent democracies, most notably France.

1. Introduction: Transformations of the State ; 2. Changing Perspectives on the State ; PART 1: THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN STATES ; 3. Varieties of State Experience ; 4. The Layered State: Pathways and Patterns of Modern Nation-State Building ; 5. The Emergence of the New World States ; 6. State Formation and Transformation in Africa and Asia: The Third Phase of State Expansion ; 7. State Theory: Four Analytical Traditions ; 8. Limited Statehood: A Critical Perpective ; 9. State Transformations in Comparative Perspective ; PART II: INTERNATIONALIZATION AND THE STATE ; 10. Internationalization and the State: Sovereignty as the External Side of Modern Statehood ; 11. Sovereign (In)Equality in the Evolution of the International System ; 12. The Competition State: The Modern State in a Global Economy <http://handbook.state.uni-bremen.de/redirect/?oid=Article-id-30021> ; 13. The Embedded State: The New Division of Labor in the Provision of Governance Functions ; 14. Multilevel Governance and the State ; 15. Beyond the State? Are Transnational Regulatory Institutions Replacing the State? ; 16. Security, Intervention, and the Responsibility to Protect: Transforming the State by Reinterpreting Sovereignty ; 17. Ambiguous Transformations: The 2007-08 International Financial Crisis and Changing Economic Roles of the State ; 18. Environmental Risks and the Changing Interface of Domestic and International Governance ; PART III: CONTEMPORARY TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CORE OECD-WORLD OF STATES ; 19. State Transformations Among the Affluent Democracies ; 20. The Transformations of the Statist Model ; 21. From Industrial Corporatism to the Social Investment State ; 22. The Changing Role of the State in Liberal Market Economies ; 23. ISI States Reverse Course: From Import Substitution to Open Economy ; 24. Welfare State Transformation: Convergence and the Rise of the Supply-Side Model ; 25. The State and Gender Equality: From Patriarchal to Women Friendly State? ; 26. From the Positive to the Regulatory State: A Transformation in the Machinery of Governance? ; 27. Migration and the Porous Boundaries of Democratic States ; 28. Plurinational States ; 29. The Changing Architecture of the National Security State ; 30. Transformations of the Democratic State ; PART IV: POSTCOMMUNIST PECULIARITIES? STATE TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE FORMER COMMUNIST WORLD ; 31. The Peculiarities of Post-Communist State Development: Institutional Consolidation and Elite Competition ; 32. The Transformation of the State in Eastern Europe ; 33. Resources as Constraints? Natural Resource Wealth and the Possibility of Developmental States in the Former Soviet Union ; 34. The Transformation of the Russian State ; 35. China: Economic Liberalization, Adaptive Informal Institutions, and Party-State Resilience ; PART V: STATE TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE NON-OECD WORLD ; 36. States in the Global South: Transformations, Trends, and Diversity ; 37. Human Development, State Transformation and the Politics of the Developmental State ; 38. Rentier States and State Transformations ; 39. Predatory States and State Transformation ; 40. State Failure and State Transformation ; 41. Ethnicity and State Transformation in the Global South ; 42. Democratization ; 43. Emerging Welfare States in Latin America and East Asia ; PART VI: CONCLUSION ; 44. Conclusion: States Transforming