TY - BOOK ID - 70362009 TI - Reason of state PY - 2015 SN - 9781107089891 1107089891 9781316106099 9781107461741 110746174X 1316361756 1316355357 1316363759 1316362752 1316358356 1316364755 1316106098 1316349357 9781316358351 9781316355350 9781316361757 9781316363751 9781316364758 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom DB - UniCat KW - Reason of state. KW - Constitutional law KW - Constitutional history KW - Raison d'État KW - Droit constitutionnel KW - Histoire constitutionnelle KW - Colonies. KW - Economic policy. KW - Imperialism. KW - Colonialism KW - Empires KW - Expansion (United States politics) KW - Neocolonialism KW - Political science KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Caesarism KW - Chauvinism and jingoism KW - Militarism KW - Economic nationalism KW - Economic planning KW - National planning KW - State planning KW - Economics KW - Planning KW - National security KW - Social policy KW - State, The KW - War and emergency powers KW - Raison d'État UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:70362009 AB - This historically embedded treatment of theoretical debates about prerogative and reason of state spans over four centuries of constitutional development. Commencing with the English Civil War and the constitutional theories of Hobbes and the Republicans, it moves through eighteenth-century arguments over jealousy of trade and commercial reason of state to early imperial concerns and the nineteenth-century debate on the legislative empire, to martial law and twentieth-century articulations of the state at the end of empire. It concludes with reflections on the contemporary post-imperial security state. The book synthesises a wealth of theoretical and empirical literature that allows a link to be made between the development of constitutional ideas and global realpolitik. It exposes the relationship between internal and external pressures and designs in the making of the modern constitutional polity and explores the relationship between law, politics and economics in a way that remains rare in constitutional scholarship. ER -