This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and different time periods to its transformations since World War II in the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist world, and the Global South.

Leading experts in their fields, from Europe and North America, discuss conceptualizations and theories of the state and the transformations of the state in its engagement with a changing international environment as well as with changing domestic economic, social, and political challenges. The Handbook covers different types of states in the Global South (from failed to predatory, rentier and developmental), in different kinds of advanced industrial political economies (corporatist, statist, liberal, import substitution industrialization), and in various post-Communist countries (Russia, China, successor states to the USSR, and Eastern Europe). It also addresses crucial challenges in different areas of state intervention, from security to financial regulation, migration, welfare states, democratization and quality of democracy, ethno-nationalism, and human development.

The volume makes a compelling case that far from losing its relevance in the face of globalization, the state remains a key actor in all areas of social and economic life, changing its areas of intervention, its modes of operation, and its structures in adaption to new international and domestic challenges.

Table of Contents:
1 Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Stephan Leibfried, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John D Stephens: Introduction: Transformations of the State; 2 Jonah D. Levy, Stephan Leibfried, and Frank Nullmeier: Changing Perspectives on the State; Part 1: The Emergence of Modern States; 3 John A. Hall: Varieties of State Experience; 4 Philip Manow and Daniel Ziblatt: The Layered State: Pathways and Patterns of Modern Nation-State Building; 5 Andrew S. Kelly and James Mahoney: The Emergence of the New World States; 6 Matthew Lange: State Formation and Transformation in Africa and Asia: The Third Phase of State Expansion; 7 Matthias vom Hau: State Theory: Four Analytical Traditions; 8 Thomas Risse: Limited Statehood: A Critical Perpective; 9 Jonah D. Levy: State Transformations in Comparative Perspective; Part II: Internationalization and the State; 10 Michael Zurn and Nicole Deitelhoff: Internationalization and the State: Sovereignty as the External Side of Modern Statehood; 11 Lora Anne Viola, Duncan Snidal, and Michael Zurn: Sovereign (In)Equality in the Evolution of the International System; 12 Philipp Genschel and Laura Seelkopf: The Competition State: The Modern State in a Global Economy ; 13 Tine Hanrieder and Bernhard Zangl: The Embedded State: The New Division of Labor in the Provision of Governance Functions; 14 Arjan H. Schakel, Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks: Multilevel Governance and the State; 15 Walter Mattli: Beyond the State? Are Transnational Regulatory Institutions Replacing the State?; 16 Christopher Daase: Security, Intervention, and the Responsibility to Protect: Transforming the State by Reinterpreting Sovereignty; 17 Eric Helleiner: Ambiguous Transformations: The 2007-08 International Financial Crisis and Changing Economic Roles of the State; 18 Klaus Dingwerth and Helge Jorgens: Environmental Risks and the Changing Interface of Domestic and International Governance; Part III: Contemporary Transformations of the Core OECD-World of States; 19 Jonah D. Levy, John D. Stephens, and Stephan Leibfried: State Transformations Among the Affluent Democracies; 20 Jonah D. Levy: The Transformations of the Statist Model; 21 Jingjing Huo and John D. Stephens: From Industrial Corporatism to the Social Investment State; 22 Peter A. Hall: The Changing Role of the State in Liberal Market Economies; 23 Herman Schwartz and Sebastian Etchemendy: ISI States Reverse Course: From Import Substitution to Open Economy; 24 Herbert Obinger and Peter Starke: Welfare State Transformation: Convergence and the Rise of the Supply-Side Model; 25 Julia S. O'Connor: The State and Gender Equality: From Patriarchal to Women Friendly State?; 26 Katharina Holzinger and Susanne K. Schmidt: From the Positive to the Regulatory State: A Transformation in the Machinery of Governance?; 27 Rainer Baubock: Migration and the Porous Boundaries of Democratic States; 28 Michael Keating: Plurinational States; 29 Andreas Busch: The Changing Architecture of the National Security State; 30 Frank Nullmeier, Steffen Schneider, and Andreas Hepp: Transformations of the Democratic State; Part IV: Postcommunist Peculiarities? State Transformations in the Former Communist World; 31 Anna Gryzmala-Busse and Pauline Jones Luong: The Peculiarities of Post-Communist State Development: Institutional Consolidation and Elite Competition; 32 Milada Anna Vachudova: The Transformation of the State in Eastern Europe; 33 Pauline Jones Luong: Resources as Constraints? Natural Resource Wealth and the Possibility of Developmental States in the Former Soviet Union; 34 Brian D. Taylor: The Transformation of the Russian State; 35 Kellee S. Tsai: China: Economic Liberalization, Adaptive Informal Institutions, and Party-State Resilience; Part V: State Transformations in the Non-OECD World; 36 Matthew Lange: States in the Global South: Transformations, Trends, and Diversity; 37 Peter Evans and Patrick Heller: Human Development, State Transformation and the Politics of the Developmental State; 38 David Waldner and Benjamin Smith: Rentier States and State Transformations; 39 William Reno: Predatory States and State Transformation; 40 Sven Chojnacki and Anne Menzel: State Failure and State Transformation; 41 Matthew Lange and Klaus Schlichte: Ethnicity and State Transformation in the Global South; 42 Grigore Pop-Eleches and Graeme B. Robertson: Democratization; 43 Evelyne Huber and Sara Niedzwiecki: Emerging Welfare States in Latin America and East Asia; Part VI: Conclusion; 44 Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Stephan Leibfried, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John Stephens: Conclusion: States Transforming