Subject(s): The State -- Transformations and perspectives of state -- Emergency of modern states -- Patterns of modern nation state building -- Emergence of the new world state -- State formation and transformation in Africa and Asia -- State theory : four analytical traditions -- Statehood -- Sate transformation -- Internationalization and the state -- Sovereignty -- Inequality -- International system -- Modern state in global economy -- Division of labour -- Governance functions -- Multilevel governance -- Transnational regulatory institutions replacing the state -- Security of the state -- Transforming the state by reinterpreting sovereignty -- Ambiguous transformations -- International financial crisis and changing economic roles of the state -- Environmental risk and the changing interface of domestic and international governance -- Contemporary transformations of the core OECD world of state -- affluent democracy and state transformation -- Industrial corporatism to the social investment state -- Liberal market economies -- ISI states -- Open economy -- Welfare state transformation -- Supply-side model -- State and gender equality -- Positive to regulatory state: transformation in the machinery of governance -- Migration and porous boundaries of democratic state -- Plurinational states -- national security state -- Democratic state -- Post communist peculiarities , state transformations in the former communist world -- Post communist state development -- Transformation of the state in Eastern Europe -- natural resource wealth and the possibility of development state in the former soviet union -- Transformation of the Russian state -- China: economic liberation, adaptive informal institutions and party-state resilience -- State transformations in the non-OECD world -- Human development -- Politics of the development state -- Rentier states and state transformation -- Predatory states and state transformation -- State failure and state transformation -- Ethnicity and and state transformation -- Democracy and regime changes in the global south -- Welfare state in Latin America and East Asia