Product Description: The sprawling cities of the developing world are vibrant hubs of economic growth, but they are also increasingly ecologically unsustainable and, for ordinary citizens, increasingly unlivable. Pollution is rising, affordable housing is decreasing, and green space is shrinking...read more

Product Description: I In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others...read more

Product Description: This examination of the dynamics of international relations attempts to define the impact of both domestic and international politics on subjects as diverse as nuclear disarmament, human rights and trade.

Product Description: The contributors examine the proposition that states and markets are bound together by inextricable symbiotic ties, while at the same time always standing in tension with each other. The conclusion drawn from the nine diverse but very specific viewpoints contained in this work is that even though markets are constructed by geopolitics and state policy, 'geopolitics and markets define the economic and political space in which states operate'...read more

Product Description: Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, although influenced by the society that surrounds it, also shapes social and political processes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)