Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Disputing Weberian Semantics, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Nicholas Onuf and Vojin Rakić 2. World-Making, State-Building, Nicholas Onuf 3. Politics, Law, and the Sacred: A Conceptual Analysis, Friedrich Kratochwil 4. Kant’s Semantics of World (State) Making, Vojin Rakić 5. The semantics of early statebuilding: Why the Eurasian steppe has been overlooked, Iver B. Neumann 6. The Semantics of Statebuilding and Nationbuilding: Looking Beyond Neo-Weberian Approaches, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert 7. Transformative Statebuilding, Occupation, and International Law: Friends or Foes?, Jan Wouters and Kenneth Chan 8. The Semantics of ‘Crisis Management’: Simulation and EU Statebuilding in the Balkans, David Chandler 9. The Semantics of Contemporary Statebuilding: Kosovo, Timor-Leste, and the ‘Empty-Shell’ Approach, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert 10. The ‘Crisis of Capitalism’ and the State – More Powerful, Less Responsible, Invariably Legitimate, Albena Azmanova 11. The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Resilience and the Spectre of the Ecofascist State, Julian Reid

About the Author

Nicolas Lemay-Hébert is a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham.

Nicholas Onuf is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Florida International University.

Vojin Rakić is Professor of Political Science at the University of Belgrade.

Petar Bojanić is a researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade.