Studying the state: a Global South perspective. Issue 4 (4th July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nicholls, Esteban
• Is Part Of: Third world thematics. Volume 3:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 469
• Page End: 478
• Publication Date: 2018-07-04
• Subjects: Polycentric Approaches -- Latin America and Africa -- Return of the State -- Commodities Boom -- Governance; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; Globalization -- Periodicals; 338.90091724
• DOI: 10.1080/23802014.2018.1575769
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2379-9978

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This introductory article presents an overview of the collection. It places its importance in relation to relevant literature and critically highlights the importance of and contributions to each of the articles in this collection. The introduction also stresses the importance of continuing to study the state, particularly from the perspective of the Global South. This entails looking at the state both as an real "thing" as an object of theory. The Introduction emphasizes the polycentric understanding of the state that the collection adopts and the diversity and complementarity between the articles presented. Above all the Introduction highlights the relevance, importance and originality of the collection of articles as a whole and as individual pieces of scholarship.