Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips -- Justice after Rawls / Richard J. Arneson -- Power after Foucault / Wendy Brown -- Critical theory beyond Habermas / William E. Scheuerman -- Feminist theory and the canon of political thought / Linda Zerilli -- After the linguistic turn : post-structuralist and liberal pragmatist political theory / Paul Patton -- The pluralist imagination / David Schlosberg -- Theory in history : problems of context and narrative / J.G.A. Pocock -- The political theory of classical Greece / Jill Frank -- Republican visions / Eric Nelson -- Modernity and its critics / Jane Bennett -- The history of political thought as disciplinary genre / James Farr -- The challenge of European union / Richard Bellamy -- East Asia and the West : the impact of Confucianism on Anglo-American political theory / Daniel A. Bell -- In the beginning, all the world was America : American exceptionalism in new contexts / Ronald J. Schmidt, Jr. -- Changing interpretations of modern and contemporary Islamic political theory / Roxanne L. Euben -- Constitutionalism and the rule of law / Shannon C. Stimson -- Emergency powers / John Ferejohn & Pasquale Pasquino -- The people / Margaret Canovan -- Civil society and the state / Simone Chambers & Jeffrey Kopstein -- Democracy and the state / Mark E. Warren -- Democracy and citizenship : expanding domains / Michael Saward -- Impartiality / Susan Mendus -- Justice, luck, and desert / Serena Olsaretti -- Recognition and redistribution / Patchen Markell -- Equality and difference / Judith Squires -- Liberty, equality, and property / Andrew Williams -- Historical injustice / Duncan Ivison -- Nationalism / David Miller -- Multiculturalism and its critics / Jeff Spinner-Halev -- Identity, difference, toleration / Anna Elisabetta Galeotti -- Moral universalism and cultural difference / Chandran Kukathas -- Human rights / Jack Donnelly -- From international to global justice? / Chris Brown -- Political secularism / Rajeev Bhargava -- Multiculturalism and post-colonial theory / Paul Gilroy -- Politicizing the body : property, contract, and rights / Moira Gatens -- New ways of thinking about privacy / Beate Roessler -- New technologies, justice, and the body / Cécile Fabre -- Paranoia and political philosophy / James M. Glass -- Political theory and cultural studies / Jodi Dean -- Political theory and the environment / John M. Meyer -- Political theory and political economy / Stephen L. Elkin -- Political theory and social theory / Christine Helliwell and Barry Hindess -- Then and now : participant-observation in political theory / William E. Connolly -- Exile and re-entry : political theory yesterday and tomorrow / Arlene W. Saxonhouse.

This text serves as a guide to the state of political science and features contributions from major international scholars. It provides a point of reference for anyone working in political theory and focuses on a particular aspects of the discipline, including public policy, political economy and more.