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General Introduction What is the State? A Preliminary Definition of the State 'Putting this Book in its Place' PART I: THEORIZING THE STATE 1. The Development of the Strategic-Relational Approach Three Sources of the Strategic-Relational State Approach The First Phase in the Strategic-Relational Approach The Second Phase of the Strategic-Relational Approach The Third Phase of the Strategic-Relational Approach Interim Strategic-Relational Conclusions 2. Bringing the State Back in (Yet Again) Introduction The Marxist Revival and the Strategic-Relational Approach Strategic-Relational Tendencies in the Second Wave New Directions of Research Conclusions PART II: SOURCES OF THE STRATEGIC-RELATIONAL APPROACH 3. Marx on Political Representation and the State What does The Eighteenth Brumaire accomplish? On Periodization The Political Stage The Social Content of Politics The State Apparatus and Its Trajectory More on Political Representation Conclusions 4. Gramsci on the Geography of State Power Spatializing the Philosophy of Praxis Gramsci and the Southern Question Gramsci on Americanism and Fordism Gramsci on Territoriality and State Power Gramsci and International Relations Conclusions 5. Poulantzas on the State as a Social Relation Marxist Theory and Political Strategy New Methodological Considerations The State and Political Class Struggle The Relational Approach and Strategic Selectivity Re-Reading Poulantzas Exceptional Elements in the Contemporary State Periodizing the Class Struggle The Spatio-Temporal Matrix of the State Conclusions 6. Foucault on State, State Formation, and Statecraft Foucault and the "Crisis of Marxism" Poulantzas and Foucault compared The Analytics of Power versus State Theory Foucault as a Genealogist of Statecraft With Foucault beyond Foucault Conclusions PART III APPLYING THE STRATEGIC-RELATIONAL APPROACH 7. The Gender Selectivities of the State Analyzing Gender Selectivities Gender Selectivities in the State Strategic Selectivity and Strategic Action Political Representation The Architecture of the State Conclusions 8. Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Temporal Sovereignty Globalization Defined Globalization and the Spatial Turn Some Spatio-Temporal Contradictions of Globalizing Capitalism The Implications of Globalization for (National) States Conclusions 9. Multiscalar Metagovernance in the European Union State-Centric Perspectives Governance-Centric Approaches Changes in Statehood in Advanced Capitalist Societies The EU as a Schumpeterian Workfare Post-National Regime The European Union and Multiscalar Metagovernance Conclusions 10. Complexity, Contingent Necessity, Semiosis, and the SRA Complexity and Contingent Necessity Complexity and the Selection of Selections Semiosis and Complexity Reduction Towards a New Strategic-Relational Agenda Conclusions

part Part I: Present as History -- chapter 1 New Beginnings -- chapter 2 Defining Genocide -- chapter 3 Counting Bodies -- chapter 4 Collectivizing Death -- chapter 5 Individualizing Life -- part Part II: Past as Prologue -- chapter 6 Democracy, Autocracy, and Terrorism -- chapter 7 Human Rights and Personal Responsibilities -- chapter 8 Bureaucracy and State Power -- chapter 9 Nationalism and Genocidal Systems -- chapter 10 Totalitarianism as a Penal Colony -- part Part III: Future as Memory -- chapter 11 Memory as History -- chapter 12 Banality of State Power -- chapter 13 A Natural History of the Holocaust -- chapter 14 Jewish Survival in a Post-Holocaust World -- part Part IV: Toward a General Theory of State-Sponsored Crime -- chapter 15 Functional and Existential Visions of Genocide -- chapter 16 Exclusivity and Inclusivity of Collective Death -- chapter 17 Surviving the Genocidal State -- part Part V : Studying Genocide -- chapter 18 Life, Death, and Sociology -- chapter 19 Researching Genocide -- chapter 20 Gauging Genocide.

THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS HAS RE-OPENED THE DEBATE ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN THE REGION'S INDUSTRIALIZATION. JUST WHEN THERE SEEMED TO BE GROWING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ACROSS THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DISCIPLINES THAT CERTAIN KINDS OF STATE INVOLVEMENT WERE VITAL TO THE RAPID UPGRADING OF THE NORTHEAST ASIAN ECONOMIES, AND THAT UNDERSTANDING WHAT MADE STATES EFFECTIVE OR INEFFECTIVE WAS A CRUCIAL ISSUE, ALONG CAME THE FINANCIAL HURRICANE. PROFOUND DISARRAY OF AN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL NATURE HAS BEEN THE MOST IMMEDIATE AND IMPORTANT CONSEQUENCE OF THIS EVENT. THEORETICAL DISARRAY HAS FOLLOWED CLOSELY IN ITS PATH. THIS ARTICLE SEEKS TO INJECT SOME THEORETICAL RIGOR INTO THE DISCUSSION OF THE ASIAN CRISIS. STATE POWER IN THE ASIAN SETTING - WHETHER AND IN WHAT WAY THE STATE'S TRANSFORMATIVE CAPACITY IS WEAK OR ROBUST - AND HOW IT RELATES TO THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL MARKETS IS CENTRAL TO THE ARGUMENT THAT FOLLOWS.