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  • Why do we focus on the state?


  • The development of the modern state
    • Role of the royalty
    • Role of Napoleon


  • The origin of the state
    • The modern state developed along with the coming of industry and of complicated commercial arrangements
    • Box: Marxist theory of the state


  • The State as a device to provide public goods


  • "State," "nation," "nation-state," and nationalism
  • State-building


  • Government and the state
    • "Government" defined
    • Theory of the "autonomous state"
    • "State" vs. "society"
    • Civil society


  • Are states losing their ability to make policy?
    • New challenges to states
    • Consequences


  • Some possible alternatives
    • Regional integration
    • The U.N.
    • Communications and World Culture
    • An emerging international law


  • Examples:
    • State Building in Nigeria
    • State Building in the European Union





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