books.google.com - Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, although influenced...http://books.google.com/books/about/Bringing_the_State_Back_In.html?id=sYgTwHQbNAAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBringing the State Back In
