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My aims in this paper are to describe and motivate the adoption of what I call a contextual approach to political philosophy. I will first provide a brief characterization of contextualism. I will then contrast contextualism against more common approaches to political philosophy, which I call idealist or schematic, and indicate the problems I see with those approaches and the relative advantages of contextualism. By doing this, I hope to demonstrate the need for further work exploring the possibilities of contextualism.

General Introduction What is the State? A Preliminary Definition of the State 'Putting this Book in its Place' PART I: THEORIZING THE STATE 1. The Development of the Strategic-Relational Approach Three Sources of the Strategic-Relational State Approach The First Phase in the Strategic-Relational Approach The Second Phase of the Strategic-Relational Approach The Third Phase of the Strategic-Relational Approach Interim Strategic-Relational Conclusions 2. Bringing the State Back in (Yet Again) Introduction The Marxist Revival and the Strategic-Relational Approach Strategic-Relational Tendencies in the Second Wave New Directions of Research Conclusions PART II: SOURCES OF THE STRATEGIC-RELATIONAL APPROACH 3. Marx on Political Representation and the State What does The Eighteenth Brumaire accomplish? On Periodization The Political Stage The Social Content of Politics The State Apparatus and Its Trajectory More on Political Representation Conclusions 4. Gramsci on the Geography of State Power Spatializing the Philosophy of Praxis Gramsci and the Southern Question Gramsci on Americanism and Fordism Gramsci on Territoriality and State Power Gramsci and International Relations Conclusions 5. Poulantzas on the State as a Social Relation Marxist Theory and Political Strategy New Methodological Considerations The State and Political Class Struggle The Relational Approach and Strategic Selectivity Re-Reading Poulantzas Exceptional Elements in the Contemporary State Periodizing the Class Struggle The Spatio-Temporal Matrix of the State Conclusions 6. Foucault on State, State Formation, and Statecraft Foucault and the "Crisis of Marxism" Poulantzas and Foucault compared The Analytics of Power versus State Theory Foucault as a Genealogist of Statecraft With Foucault beyond Foucault Conclusions PART III APPLYING THE STRATEGIC-RELATIONAL APPROACH 7. The Gender Selectivities of the State Analyzing Gender Selectivities Gender Selectivities in the State Strategic Selectivity and Strategic Action Political Representation The Architecture of the State Conclusions 8. Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Temporal Sovereignty Globalization Defined Globalization and the Spatial Turn Some Spatio-Temporal Contradictions of Globalizing Capitalism The Implications of Globalization for (National) States Conclusions 9. Multiscalar Metagovernance in the European Union State-Centric Perspectives Governance-Centric Approaches Changes in Statehood in Advanced Capitalist Societies The EU as a Schumpeterian Workfare Post-National Regime The European Union and Multiscalar Metagovernance Conclusions 10. Complexity, Contingent Necessity, Semiosis, and the SRA Complexity and Contingent Necessity Complexity and the Selection of Selections Semiosis and Complexity Reduction Towards a New Strategic-Relational Agenda Conclusions

Answers to the question of immigrant admissions (what policies governing the admission and exclusion of nonrefugee foreigners may states justly adopt?) have been debated extensively by political philosophers since the 1980s. A wide variety of normative approaches to the question have been taken, but very nearly zero have been expressly feminist. Generalizing from Alison Jaggar's articulation of a feminist methodological approach to the political morality of abortion, this article proposes a feminist methodological approach to immigrant admissions. This article does not defend a substantive view on what policies states ought to adopt, but it does describe several features of our social world that are salient for a feminist methodological approach to the assessment of the justice of states' immigrant admissions policies.

A One Health approach to our science is critical and we continue to be a part of the solution nationally and internationally. This blog highlights some of the ways that we are championing a One Health approach.

The political discussion about sustainable development had an early start in the Austrian context. The concept of "eco‐social market economy" was introduced at the end of the 1980s and dominated the Austrian approach towards sustainable development for much of the 1990s. This early start had some consequences especially regarding regional approaches towards the implementation of sustainable development. One major feature was the absence of local or regional LA 21 initiatives and a proliferation of diverse regional approach acts to further sustainable development. One approach put into effect in the Feldbach region in the south‐east of Austria was the concept of Islands of Sustainability. The idea of this concept was the realisation of a regional pathway towards sustainable development via conscious management of flows (of matters, products, capital, etc.) into the region as well as increasing the intra‐regional networking of social actors. This concept called for a long term involvement of research in the process of implementation of sustainable development. The experiences showed that existing research institutions, such as universities as well as consultant companies, were not optimally equipped to support this process. As a consequence, a new approach of "regionalised" research centres was adopted. This approach ensured accessibility of research capacity by the important players in the region, as well as efficient application of scientific knowledge to concrete on‐the‐ground decision making within the region.

The paper deals with interdisciplinary approach of teaching English ter-minologies. Since language competence is linked with career options, sta-tus, and so forth, the presence of specific terminological barriers among the students from different faculties also has to be acknowledged. This demands interdisciplinary approaches in teaching process. Specific termi-nology is the standard vocabulary used in the professional field. Profes-sionals can conduct communication successfully by using terminologies easily and accurately.The research involved gathering date on learners views on their learn-ing needs and expectations, on encountered difficulties in learning Eng-lish terminologies at university, the degree of importance of proficiency in professional areas of language, and collecting and analysing learners.Empirical research questions relate to:1. The importance of interdisciplinary approach in the process of teach-ing English medical terminology2. How to use an interdisciplinary approach

The central focus of the article is managing change in the National Health Service (NHS). In particular, it uses the implementation of general management (see the Griffiths Report, 1983) to explore the value of the process-sociological approach for understanding a number of unintended outcomes associated with this change. Elias is not a sociologist associated with the study of the NHS, or indeed the management of change, yet it is argued his approach has much to offer in exploring change in complex organizations such as the NHS. The article is organized as three sections. First, the central elements of a figurational approach are discussed and used to explore existing studies of change in the NHS. Second, the article applies a figurational approach to the study of the implementation of general management. Here the value of Elias's game models is explored in some detail. Finally, Elias's contribution to the study of complex social change is critically assessed.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Theoretical Approaches -- 1 The Idea of Democratic Governance -- 2 The Real Utopian Approach -- 3 The Empire Thesis and its Critics -- Part 2 On Taiwan -- 4 Nationalism, Democratisation and the Taiwan Question -- 5 Referendum and the Taiwanese National Identity -- 6 Sovereignty and the Taiwan Question -- Part 3 On Tibet -- 7 Confucian and Marxist Theoretical Traditions of Minority Rights and Beyond -- 8 Beyond Socialist Autonomy in Tibet -- 9 Beyond Chinese Linguistic Imperialism: Multi-linguistic Policy -- 10 A Deliberative Approach to the Tibet Autonomy Issue -- 11 The Idea of Deliberative Referendum: Synthesis and Conclusion -- References -- Index

This article argues that the study of European integration is divided into two distinct approaches: classical integration theory for which the shape of the Euro-polity is the dependent variable & the governance approach for which it is the independent variable. A historical & conceptual overview of the approach focuses on the efficiency side of governance & excludes issues of democracy & legitimacy. From a sociology of knowledge perspective, the first part traces the roots of the present discussion back to three bodies of literature, namely studies on Europeanization, regulatory policy making, & network concepts. The second part presents the achievements of the approach: putting EU studies in a comparative perspective, directing attention toward democratic governance, & bypassing old dichotomies on the future of the nation-state. The final section evaluates present shortcomings, most notably a bias toward problem solving, the proliferation of case studies, & the lack of a coherent theoretical perspective. 84 References. Adapted from the source document.

The paper reviews some of the key principles of a territorial approach to rural development and particular aspects of regional rural development. Some features of the EU Leader initiative were analyzed as examples of the approach, and the social context and factors which may affect the application of these features in regional rural development were identified. The paper concludes by emphasizing the need for different rural policies and preconditions for implementing the territorial approach. Moreover, available resources of rural areas were emphasized as well as the need for perceiving rural areas as (valuable) resources (not as issues), particularly in the context of Serbian rural development processes.