Understanding power: traditional approaches. -- Understanding power: radical approaches. -- The state and power. -- A framework for analysing power and the state. -- The development of the state from modernity to pastmodernity. -- Legitimacy, authority and bureaucracy. -- Force and terror. -- Rationality and regulation. -- Surveillance. -- Risk. -- States and the moral order. -- The limits of the stae: invisibility, resistance and constraint. -- Conclusion.

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