Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Cosmin Sebastian Cercel and Cihan Ozpinar -- ‘Where is the Law?’: Legal Discourse and Ideology in Interwar Romania / Cosmin Sebastian Cercel -- Liberalism Today: The Challenges Posed by Plural Societies / Carla Larouco Gomes -- Transnational Internal Security, Democracy and the Role of the State / Ronan Kaczynski -- A Story about a Victim and a Demon / Ayşegül Sabuktay -- Policing Dissent: Authoritarian Reformulation of the State in AKP’s Turkey / Cemil Yildizcan and Cihan Ozpinar -- Good Government: The United States Shapes a New Zealand Politician / Raymond Richards -- Does Service Delivery Influence the Voting Choices Made by Voters during Local Government Elections? An Anthropological Investigation Conducted in the Municipal Wards of the Botshabelo Township in the Mangaung Metropolitan Area / Jan Petrus van der Merwe.

The critical turn of the neoliberal capitalism in 2000s, 9/11 events and its after-effects, worldly and regional economic crises during the first decade of the 21st century and the repositioning of governments against crises… . The state has become one of the most burning questions of our times regarding its apparently rising power all over the world and it deserves even more attention today than any time. The needed attention should awaken philosophical questionings as well: ‘Putting the state in its place’ cannot be considered out of ethics and oscillating discussions around the state between good and evil. This book aims to be a contribution to the debates as the volume gathers a number of contributions by scholars from around the world who discuss the state in this axis through various examples from different geographies and historical periods.