Approaching the Internationalization of the State: An Introduction

Freedom and the Strong State: On German Ordoliberalism

“…The crisis of 2008 has brought the state back in (Altvater 2009), and we are witnessing a resurgent national state, one which has regained some measure of control over the market (Jessop 2010). Whether 'neoliberalism met its definite end with the crisis that erupted in 2008' as Cecena (2009: 33) asserts, or whether there is a new emerging political economy in which the state is the principal actor vis-à-vis the economy, is at the forefront of the debate on 'post-neoliberal governance' (see Brandt and Sekler 2009b;Bonefeld 2010), which is characterised by the resurgence of the state as the authoritative power in the relationship between state and economy (Brandt and Sekler 2009a;Wissen and Brandt 2011). This view is core to the suggestion that the ordoliberal stance is 'perhaps closest to post-Washington' forms of governance (Sheppard and Leitner 2010: 188).…”

Changing geographies of the state: themes, challenges and futures

“…Instead, the emphasis in much urban and regional planning and policy is on mapping and measuring the flow of capital, knowledge and information through cities and regions as if these ostensibly global flows operate in a 'borderless world' (Ohmae 1995). Despite occasional calls to 'bring the state back' into contemporary spatial analysis (Wissen and Brand 2010), even economic geographers and regional social scientists remain somewhat uncomfortable with the idea that the study of national and subnational state structures and territories offers a stable launch-pad for contemporary critical geo-economic and geopolitical analyses.…”

EU economic governance and austerity: Exploring recent perspectives

“…In the early stages of the crisis, Wissen and Brand () and Demirović () used Jessop's scheme of “multi‐scalar governance” along with Carnoy and Castells' () “transnational state” to scrutinize the idea that the crisis signalled a return of the national state. They argued that although state is back again, it is not about national state (Demirović, : 38–9; Wissen & Brand, : 1).…”

“…In the early stages of the crisis, Wissen and Brand () and Demirović () used Jessop's scheme of “multi‐scalar governance” along with Carnoy and Castells' () “transnational state” to scrutinize the idea that the crisis signalled a return of the national state. They argued that although state is back again, it is not about national state (Demirović, : 38–9; Wissen & Brand, : 1). The, mainly financial, “transnational component of the ruling class” tries to deal with the crisis through an emergent “transnational network state” which consists of different local, national, and international state institutions (Demirović, : 54; Wissen & Brand, : 7).…”