Sociology of the State and its Law(2)
Term:
Spring 2009
Subject Code:
GPOL
Course Number:
6118
The course will consider the history and forms of
organization of the modern state from an interdisciplinary point
of view. The first part of the course will pay a great deal of
attention to Weber�s sociology of the state and state formation,
and its extensions in authors such as Elias, Foucault, Tilly,
Mann, Giddens, and Poggi as well as to constitutional law
theories of sovereignty, state regulation and self-regulation.
The second part of the course will relocate the state in its
international context and re-consider state development from the
point of view of imperial globalization. We end by considering
several empirical and normative theses concerning the end of the
state. The course meets together with the Columbia University
Political Science course on the Theories of the
State.
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