REVIEW ARTICLE 77 be easier to locate and spell out the uniqueness of the book under review. First, it signifies a trend away from the dominant paradigms of inquiry as represented by the behavioral or neo-Marxist schools. Under th^se two paradigms a large number of studies had proliferated to a point where some of the formulations of both the schools had started appearing like hackneyed stereotypes. Thus, the stereotypes were being dichotomised as tradition vs. modernity in case of modernisation theories and metropolis vs. satellite imagery in case of dependency theories. Indeed, mechanical applications of schematic formulations can certainly make any research dull and stale. Moreover, the technical vocabulary that such studies generate can confine their readership to a select few who have been obsessed with the intricate details of a particular paradigm. Jackson's effort in this study is refreshing because it has consciously distanced itself from the well-known stereotypes. Second, the trend that Jackson is setting also needs to be appraised rather imaginatively. For this book is a splendid effort to revive the obscured identity of political science as a discipline. To a large extent, due to invasion from other disciplines such as sociology, economics and philosophy into the boundaries of 'political* and the consequent emphasis on promotion of inter disciplinary studies to get an appreciable grip over the nature of social realities, political science was being robbed of its autonomy. Jackson's travail has revived and perhaps brought back to life most of the central concerns of political science. To put it simply, political science is built around the study of state and its most essential attributes like sovereignty. Sovereignty, in its turn, is exercised through the agency of government over population that inhabits well-defined territorial limits. The present study has brought the state and a few internal as well as external aspects of its functioning to the centrestage of debate. Third, the book has focussed its attention on the Third World in contemporary international relations and to analyze the changing role of the Third World it has innovated a new category of 'quasi-states. Basically Jackson has tried to stress the capacity of the Third World to bring about a change in the normative environment that governs international relations. With the change in the normative environment notions of international law also manifest change. By concentrating on the interconnections between internal and external aspects of the functioning of 'state', Jackson's study unfolds the intertwined relationship between political theory and international relations. In order to understand Jackson's effort to analyse the role of Third World states it may be essential to refer to some of the concepts that he has deployed in this study. Jackson has termed post colonial states as quasi-states. The term quasi-state encapsulates the essence of post colonial states that are primarily judicial. After attaining juridical