Preface / Stephan Leibfried, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John D. Stephens -- Introduction: Transformations of the state / Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Stephan Leibfried, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John D. Stephens -- Changing perspectives on the state / Jonah D. Levy, Stephan Leibfried, and Frank Nullmeier -- Part I: The emergence of modern states. Varieties of state experience / John A. Hall ; The layered state : pathways and patterns of modern nation state building / Philip Manow and Daniel Ziblatt ; The emergence of the new world states / Andrew S. Kelly and James Mahoney ; State formation and transformation in Africa and Asia : the third phase of state expansion / Matthew Lange ; State theory : four analytical traditions / Matthias Vom Hau ; Limited statehood : a critical perspective / Thomas Risse ; State transformations in comparative perspective / Jonah D. Levy -- Part II: Internationalization and the state. Internationalization and the state : sovereignty as the external side of modern statehood / Michael Zürn and Nicole Deitelhoff ; Sovereign (in)equality in the evolution of the international system / Lora Anne Viola, Duncan Snidal, and Michael Zürn ; The competition state : the modern state in a global economy / Philipp Genschel and Laura Seelkopf ; The embedded state : the new division of labor in the provision of governance functions / Tine Hanrieder and Bernhard Zangl ; Multilevel governance and the state / Arjan H. Schakel, Liesbet Hooghe, and Gary Marks ; Beyond the state? Are transnational regulatory institutions replacing the state? / Walter Mattli ; Security, intervention, and the responsibility to protect : transforming the state by reinterpreting sovereignty / Christopher Daase ; Ambiguous transformations : the 2007/08 international financial crisis and changing economic roles of the state / Eric Helleiner ; Environmental risks and the changing interface of domestic and international governance / Klaus Dingwerth and Helge Jörgens -- Part III: Contemporary transformations of the core OECD world of states. State transformations among the affluent democracies / Jonah D. Levy, John D. Stephens, and Stephan Leibfried ; The transformations of the statist model / Jonah D. Levy ; From industrial corporatism to the social investment state / Jingjing Huo and John D. Stephens ; The changing role of the state in liberal market economies / Peter A. Hall ; ISI states reverse course : from import substitution to open economy / Herman Schwartz and Sebastián Etchemendy ; Welfare state transformation : convergence and the rise of the supply-side model / Herbert Obinger and Peter Starke ; The state and gender equality : from patriarchal to women-friendly state? / Julia S. O'Connor ; From the positive to the regulatory state : a transformation in the machinery of governance? / Katharina Holzinger and Susanne K. Schmidt ; Migration and the porous boundaries of democratic states / Rainer Bauböck ; Plurinational states / Michael Keating ; The changing architecture of the national security state / Andreas Busch ; Transformations of the democratic state / Frank Nullmeier, Steffen Schneider, and Andreas Hepp -- Part IV: Post-communist peculiarities? State transformations in the former communist world. The peculiarities of post-communist state development : institutional consolidation and elite competition / Anna Grzymała-Busse and Pauline Jones Luong ; The transformation of the state in Eastern Europe / Milada Anna Vachudova ; Resources as constraints? Natural resource wealth and the possibility of developmental states in the former Soviet Union / Pauline Jones Luong ; The transformation of the Russian state / Brian D. Taylor ; China : economic liberalization, adaptive informal institutions, and party-state resilience / Kellee S. Tsai -- Part V: State transformations in the non-OECD world. States in the global south : transformations, trends, and diversity / Matthew Lange ; Human development, state transformation, and the politics of the developmental state / Peter B. Evans and Patrick Heller ; Rentier states and state transformations / David Waldner and Benjamin Smith ; Predatory states and state transformation / William Reno ; State failure and state transformation / Sven Chojnacki and Anne Menzel ; Ethnicity and state transformation in the global south / Matthew Lange and Klaus Schlichte ; Democracy and regime change in the global south : causes and trends / Grigore Pop-Eleches and Graeme B. Robertson ; Emerging welfare states in Latin America and East Asia / Evelyne Huber and Sara Niedzwiecki -- Part VI: Conclusion. Conclusion: States transforming / Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Stephan Leibfried, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John D. Stephens.