ROGER KING is Visiting Research Fellow at the Association of Commonwealth Universities. He was previously Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln and Humberside until he retired in 2001.GAVIN KENDALL is Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

'An excellent introductory text...' - Mark Laffey, Times Higher Education Supplement

• Why Study the State?.- The Development of the Modern Nation State.- Classical Theories of the State.- Democracy and the State.- The Interventionist State and its Critics.- Globalization.- Suprastate Governance.- The Liberal State.- Power, Domination, Culture and Sociality.- Postscript: The Future of the State.

ROGER KING is Visiting Research Fellow at the Association of Commonwealth Universities. He was previously Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln and Humberside until he retired in 2001.GAVIN KENDALL is Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

'An excellent introductory text...' - Mark Laffey, Times Higher Education Supplement

• Why Study the State?.- The Development of the Modern Nation State.- Classical Theories of the State.- Democracy and the State.- The Interventionist State and its Critics.- Globalization.- Suprastate Governance.- The Liberal State.- Power, Domination, Culture and Sociality.- Postscript: The Future of the State.

ROGER KING is Visiting Research Fellow at the Association of Commonwealth Universities. He was previously Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln and Humberside until he retired in 2001.GAVIN KENDALL is Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

'An excellent introductory text...' - Mark Laffey, Times Higher Education Supplement

• Why Study the State?.- The Development of the Modern Nation State.- Classical Theories of the State.- Democracy and the State.- The Interventionist State and its Critics.- Globalization.- Suprastate Governance.- The Liberal State.- Power, Domination, Culture and Sociality.- Postscript: The Future of the State.