Another detailed review – in Antipode by Scott Kirsch. The whole review appears to be available free. Here’s two paragraphs – the second and the last:

Of course, it is not surprising that Lefebvre’s opus on space became the touchstone to his work in Anglophone geography in the 1990s. Production of Space remains an exceptional text within Lefebvre’s corpus because, through space, it drew together a wide range of Lefebvre’s engagements—with everyday life; with urban planning and politics; and, though it has thus far received less attention, in his theory of the state and of state space (but see Brenner 2001; Elden 2004:211–255). These latter concerns would culminate in the immense De l’État, Lefebvre’s wide-ranging analysis of the modern state, published in four volumes between 1976 and 1978. While that work remains largely untranslated into English, a parallel collection of Lefebvre’s essays on the state, written between 1964 and 1986, has been produced under the editorship of Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden as State, Space, World (SSW). Brenner and Elden deliver 15 chapters by Lefebvre, most of them translated for the first time, which begin to fill the void in Anglophone scholarship around Lefebvre’s more explicit state theory, along with a lengthy introduction which situates the work in terms of its heterodox influences and engagements. Drawn from a range of journal articles, lectures, and excerpted chapters, the collection becomes a kind of shadow volume for De l’État, inviting us to reconsider the state in Lefebvre’s work, perhaps even to place it at the heart of Lefebvre’s spatial theory. For Brenner and Elden, this is a serious move with implications for how we are to understand Lefebvre—and the production of space—and also for gauging the insights that Lefebvre’s understandings of the state might provide for analyses of contemporary global processes and events…

But for those, like Lefebvre himself, intent on developing new Marxisms or new forms of self-management, the broad conceptual lines laid out in this volume, refocusing attention on the classic Marxist-Leninist problematic of the state, and the reworking of that theory through both the production of space and the mode of production, offer rewards. In State, Space, World, Brenner and Elden have assembled a highly suggestive intervention which deepens our understanding of both the fragility and the durability of state forms in an age that translates, closely enough, to globalization. Lefebvre’s writings on the state, reaching from across three eventful decades, provide a powerful feeling of possibility—and of dread. If the state mode of production is itself only a historical condition, are we still “in it”? What would Henri Lefebvre think? He might ask whether the state “still asserts itself as the sole organizational, the sole rational, and the sole unifying moment of society”? (SSW:149). Notwithstanding the shrinkage experienced by the social democratic state, the question remains as relevant today as the day it was written. Nonetheless one senses in reading this book that the transformation of the State is not just always on the horizon but always already occurring somewhere, and Lefebvre continues to provide insight.