Klaus Schlichte is Director of Young Scholar Group 'Micropolitics of Armed Groups', in the Institute for Social Sciences, at Humboldt University at Berlin, Germany.

’This remarkable collection of essays brings together an international group of scholars dealing with...the state in the global South. The book presents cutting-edge research on the very different trajectories which post-colonial state formation has taken. The authors engage in current debates about failed states, state decay and the privatization of violence...This is refreshing reading for anyone interested in the most pressing questions of global politics in our time.’ Dr Dietrich Jung, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark

• Contents: Rethinking the State, Joel Migdal and Klaus Schlichte; Whose Statesis it? Hindu-nationalist violence and populism in India, Julia Eckert; The 'privatization' of the state: North Africa in comparative perspective, Beatrice Hibou; The State against itself: market reforms and the juridicialization of politics in Mexico, Tom Lewis; The Phoenix State: war economy and state formation in Liberia, François Prkic; The rise of the social and the banalization of the State in China, Jean-Louis Rocca; Uganda - a State in suspense, Klaus Schlichte; Boundaries of State and military in Pakistan, Boris Wilke; Index.

Klaus Schlichte is Director of Young Scholar Group 'Micropolitics of Armed Groups', in the Institute for Social Sciences, at Humboldt University at Berlin, Germany.

’This remarkable collection of essays brings together an international group of scholars dealing with...the state in the global South. The book presents cutting-edge research on the very different trajectories which post-colonial state formation has taken. The authors engage in current debates about failed states, state decay and the privatization of violence...This is refreshing reading for anyone interested in the most pressing questions of global politics in our time.’ Dr Dietrich Jung, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark

• Contents: Rethinking the State, Joel Migdal and Klaus Schlichte; Whose Statesis it? Hindu-nationalist violence and populism in India, Julia Eckert; The 'privatization' of the state: North Africa in comparative perspective, Beatrice Hibou; The State against itself: market reforms and the juridicialization of politics in Mexico, Tom Lewis; The Phoenix State: war economy and state formation in Liberia, François Prkic; The rise of the social and the banalization of the State in China, Jean-Louis Rocca; Uganda - a State in suspense, Klaus Schlichte; Boundaries of State and military in Pakistan, Boris Wilke; Index.

Klaus Schlichte is Director of Young Scholar Group 'Micropolitics of Armed Groups', in the Institute for Social Sciences, at Humboldt University at Berlin, Germany.

’This remarkable collection of essays brings together an international group of scholars dealing with...the state in the global South. The book presents cutting-edge research on the very different trajectories which post-colonial state formation has taken. The authors engage in current debates about failed states, state decay and the privatization of violence...This is refreshing reading for anyone interested in the most pressing questions of global politics in our time.’ Dr Dietrich Jung, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark

• Contents: Rethinking the State, Joel Migdal and Klaus Schlichte; Whose Statesis it? Hindu-nationalist violence and populism in India, Julia Eckert; The 'privatization' of the state: North Africa in comparative perspective, Beatrice Hibou; The State against itself: market reforms and the juridicialization of politics in Mexico, Tom Lewis; The Phoenix State: war economy and state formation in Liberia, François Prkic; The rise of the social and the banalization of the State in China, Jean-Louis Rocca; Uganda - a State in suspense, Klaus Schlichte; Boundaries of State and military in Pakistan, Boris Wilke; Index.