This seminar aims to provide the graduate students with a critical historical understanding on neoliberal state transformation within capitalist development. After a methodological and historical analysis on the formation of the capitalist state in its bourgeois democratic and national form until the 1980s, the seminar will scrutinise the social, economic and ideological bases of the ongoing transformations in the political field since then. In this regard, authoritarian implications of various global processes on the state will be discussed by focusing on the restructurings that have been taking place in the economic management, legal framework and coercive functions of states.