Introduction. -- Part I : The state as concept, relation, and reality. -- The concept of the state. -- The state as a social relation. -- Power, interests, domination, state effects. -- Part II : On terriroty, apparatus, and population. -- The state and space-time. -- State and nation. -- Government + governance in the shadow of hierarchy. -- Part III : Past and present (futures) of the state. -- The world market and the world of states. -- Liberal democracy, exceptional states, and the new normal. -- The future of states and statehood.

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