This paper examines how recent developments within the regulation approach might be used to inform comparative urban and regional research. It begins by outlining the ways in which regulation theorists have pursued an interest in variability and uneven development. It then reviews attempts made by different authors to deploy regulationist concepts ...
This article indicates how Marxist principles can be used to study political science and, in particular, be applied to an analysis of governing problems and responses in the British context. It proceeds by suggesting that if political science is to rise above the level of investigative journalism, then it is necessary to grapple with some difficult...
Political scientists have discussed relations between fictional and non-fictional texts in different ways. None of the perspectives so far provide methodological tools for integrating fictional literature into an already established political-theoretical debate, which is part of the canon of political thought. This article presents a ‘textual coope...
This article is a call for making the Eurasian steppe an object of study within International Relations. The first section argues that the neglect of the steppe is due to 19th-century prejudice against non-sedentary polities as being barbarian. This is hardly a scholarly reason to neglect them. The second section is a nutshell overview of literatur...
The judicial and political control of exceptionality remains one of the fundamental problems of the Constitutional regime in Colombia. Regulations states of emergency leave from the Theory of the State, but the approach to the study of them should never escape the Theory of Law, especially when constitutional order is the same who would impose limi...
The article argues that any state theory has to take into consideration the fundamental changes of the logic of power that was brought about by the advent of capitalism. While a territorial logic of power was a central characteristic of European states before capitalism, the power of states has been detached from national territories through the mo...