State

The Republic

Plato.

Leviathan (Penguin Classics)

Thomas Hobbes, C. B. Macpherson

On the postcolony

Achille Mbembe

Dante: Monarchy (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Dante Alighieri

Marx: Later Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Karl Marx

On power: the natural history of its growth

Bertrand de Jouvenel ; foreword by D.W. Brogan ; translation by J.F. Huntington.

Violent Democracy

Daniel Ross

The Man Versus the State: With Six Essays on Government, Society, and Freedom

Herbert Spencer

Curtains of iron and gold: reconstructing borders and scales of interaction

Heikki Eskelinen, Ilkka Liikanen, and Jukka Oksa, eds.

The Condition of States: A Study in International Political Theory

Cornelia Navari