1:The state may not the only actor in the world politics, but it is widely recognised as the one that has the greatest impact on people’s lives’’
2:The state is ‘’the principal institutional site of political experience’’
-City-states
-Empires
-Feudal states
-Nation-states
3:State = Government + Population + Territory
4:‘’Human community that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory’’
Max Weber (1864-1920)
5:What İs a State ?
-Political association
-The control and organization of the force
Control over the coercive means
Order-Peace-Security
6: modern assumption is that a sovereign power claims supreme and exclusive authority to rule over a clearly bordered territory, and that the population residing there constitutes a nation.
Modern state = State + Sovereignty + Nation
7:A modern state possesses ‘the right to be obeyed without challenge’
8:Origins of the modern state
9:The fragmented, decentralized system of government that dominated the medieval period (roughly from AD 500 to 1500) is now known as Feudalism.
-geographic decentralization
-institutionally personalized government
-control over the instruments of violence
10:Because the king lacked the administrative and financial capacity to extend his authority across the whole divided kingdom he would appoint representatives
-Military
-Judicial
-Financial
11:The idea of the sovereign state
12:‘’Power and authority should be concentrated in a single decision-maker’ Jean Bodin
-St Bartholomew’s Day massacre - 1572
to monopolise the right to use of force
Influential ideas about the state in Leviathan
-Soverign is supreme and absolute
-Instruments of coersion
-State is like a human body
Independence or masterless
Free, independent and equal
-Interest
-Policies
13:State-building as war making
14:The rise of the modern state
The late 16th and 17th centuries:
-Civil and religious wars
-Trade wars on the high seas
-Wars of conquest and assimilation in the New World
-1555 the Treaty of Augsburg – 1648 (the Peace of Westphalia): 112 wars in Europe
15:-Military revolution and financial burden
Military revolution in 17th century
-technology and weaponry
-innovations in military tactics and strategy
-heightened organization of military forces
-the growth in size of the armed
-costs of maintaining maritime forces
War machines - state’s administrative
- financial and political organization
16:In order to monopolise the instruments of violence under a single unrivalled authority.
-Systematic revenue raising depends on developing administrative capabilities
17:-Development of the state’s revenue-raising and administrative capabilities was crucial to its monopolization of coercive means
Extend the capacity to monitor, control and monopolize the effective means of violence
18:The sovereign state is a distinctively modern resolution of political life that emerged after long and bloody battles over power and authority, and that has now been globalised as a political form.
19:Aside from coersion, modern states claim a monopoly right to:
-National economic management
-Law making
-International representation
-Border control
-Political loyalty