The State of the State
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Transformations of the State: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
05 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Saskia Sassen delivers the keynote speech of the 'Transformations of the State: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' conference held by the Anglo...
The State, Tolerance and Rationalism in Spinoza, Mendelssohn and Kant
06 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Stefan Bird-Pollan (University of Kentucky) delivers a lecture as part of the Anglo-German 'State of the State' Fellowship Programme on the ideas of T...
Opinion Formation and Democratic Legitimacy
06 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University) delivers this lecture on government, opinion formation, the media and direct democracy as part of the Anglo-Germa...
Globalisation, Inequality, and the State
06 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Pogge (Yale University) presents this lecture as part of the Anglo-German 'State of the State' Fellowship Programme, given by on May 24th, 2011...
Regional courts as a substitute for the domestic rule of law: The Campbell case before the SADC Tribunal
15 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Erika de Wet (University of Pretoria) delivers a lecture concerning Mike Campbell and the land reform program in Zimbabwe. Delivered as part of the An...
The Practice of Sovereignty: Kant on the Duties of National and International Citizenship
24 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania) presents his paper on Kant's views of the practice of sovereignty. Presented as part of the Anglo-German 'St...
The Idea of the State: a Genealogy
11 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Quentin Skinner gives a genealogy of the modern state, arguing that we should not understand the state simply as the government, but rather as a ficti...