Yet to conclude that the state persists – and persists prominently – in contemporary times of large-scale accelerated globalization is not to conclude that the state remains the same. As many a political theorist has stressed, the state has never in its history been fixed. It is perpetually ‘in motion, evolving, adapting, incorporating … always in some condition of transition’ (Jarvis and Paolini, 1995: 5-6).