Author Description

1. Introduction: Disputing Weberian Semantics / Nicolas Lemay-hebert, Nicholas Onuf And Vojin Rakic -- 2. World-making, State-building / Nicholas Onuf -- 3. Politics, Law, And The Sacred: A Conceptual Analysis / Friedrich Kratochwil -- 4. Kant's Semantics Of World (state) Making / Vojin Rakic -- 5. The Semantics Of Early Statebuilding: Why The Eurasian Steppe Has Been Overlooked / Iver B. Neumann -- 6. The Semantics Of Statebuilding And Nationbuilding: Looking Beyond Neo-weberian Approaches / Nicolas Lemay-hebert -- 7. Transformative Statebuilding, Occupation, And International Law: Friends Or Foes? / Jan Wouters And Kenneth Chan -- 8. The Semantics Of 'crisis Management': Simulation And Eu Statebuilding In The Balkans / David Chandler -- 9. The Semantics Of Contemporary Statebuilding: Kosovo, Timor-leste, And The 'empty-shell' Approach / Nicolas Lemay-hebert -- 10. The 'crisis Of Capitalism' And The State -- More Powerful, Less Responsible, Invariably Legitimate / Albena Azmanova -- 11. The Neoliberal Biopolitics Of Resilience And The Spectre Of The Ecofascist State / Julian Reid. Edited By Nicolas Lemay-hébert, Nicholas Onuf, Vojin Rakic And Petar Bojanic. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.