POLS 2950 Lecture 3: Somalia tutorial 3
27 Sep 2016
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Common person was alienated only belonged to elites. Helped foster liberalism- permited people to critique the monarchy- and brought down the monarch. This happened later on- more of a challenge to the church- kings would speak the local language. Permitted the local language being spoken in court. Power of religion was transferred to the people. Nationalism is a imagined part of the community. Hobbes righting in english for the monarch common people wouldn"t have spoken it. Small % of population speaks the language of the country. Did a meaningful state ever exist-what is a meaningful states represent. Un world bank needs people to cooperate to be recognized to make money from them. Was in there interest to have a central state in order to extract resources. Imf/ world bank acts as a colonial power that requires. Corruption of the state that unofficial state is preferable. State that doesn twant to be a state.
