Book Review: King, Roger, and Gavin Kendall. The State, Democracy & Globalization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Abstract

Roger King and Gavin Kendall bring into one book three important concepts dear to political scientists: the state, democracy and globalization. Their book is a good introduction to these topics for both experts and laymen alike. The book is divided into ten chapters the first three of which, focus on the concept of the "State", its historical development and the theories which attempt to explain and understand it. The next two chapters deal with democracy and its application to the understanding of the state. Chapters six and seven deal with globalization and suprastate governance. The last two chapters deal with the concept of the liberal state power, domination, culture and sociality. The final chapter provides a postscript with the authors pondering on the future of the state. The book is strong in theory but its great weakness is its tendency to jump around all over the place on the three important concepts that the book tries to study.

Keywords: Book Review, State, Democracy, Globalization

JEL Classification: H10, H70, N10, N40