Alex Demirovic, Joachim Hirsch, and Bob Jessop provide a comprehensive introduction to this Marxist classic: "Poulantzas' general approach is theoretically more complex and holds more strategic relevance for the left than much of the currently fashionable talk about the future of the nation-state in the age of globalization." Nicos Poulantzas presents a systematic treatise on Marxist state theory with the aim of completing Marx's theory of the bourgeois state. He engages with the perspectives of Eurocommunism and the French left union, analyzes the challenges of democratic transition following the crisis of dictatorships in Greece, Portugal, and Spain in the mid-1970s, and addresses the increasingly apparent crisis of state socialism. His efforts to...