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Second‐Order Condensations of Societal Power Relations: Environmental Politics and the Internationalization of the State from a Neo‐Poulantzian Perspective 1
Author(s) -
Brand Ulrich,
Görg Christoph,
Wissen Markus
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00815.x
Subject(s) - internationalization , state (computer science) , politics , relevance (law) , order (exchange) , materialism , power (physics) , economic system , sociology , scale (ratio) , resource (disambiguation) , political science , epistemology , positive economics , social science , economics , law , geography , mathematics , philosophy , computer science , physics , international trade , computer network , cartography , finance , algorithm , quantum mechanics
Abstract: This article develops an understanding of the internationalization of the state which draws on materialist state theory, regulation theory and the scale debate in radical geography. It introduces the concept of “second‐order condensations of societal relationships of forces” which aims at advancing Poulantzas’ state theoretical approach and applying it to the analysis of international state apparatuses, their functions and their relationship to state apparatuses on other spatial scales. The empirical and political relevance of the theoretical considerations is elucidated with examples from international resource and environmental policy.