The State and State Building: Theory and Practice
Edited by Petar Bojanić , Srđan Prodanović Author(s) Vojin Rakić (ed) Publisher Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade Published 2012 ISBN 978-86-82417-32-3 Pages 219 Edition Conferentia
The state increasingly represents an enigma in contemporary politics, which problem opens up a variety of controversies in social science research. This volume is the result of the conference “The State and State-Building: Theory and Practice in Retrospect,” held in Belgrade in May of 2011. The papers in this volume address the semantics of state-building from a variety of perspectives. To greater or lesser degree, a majority of the contributors do so historically, whether discussing political history, social history or the history of ideas.