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, statistliberal, 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 statesdemocratization 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.

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