ATS1873 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Abstract And Concrete, Well-Order, Feudalism
5 Aug 2018
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It is authority rather than power/control that defines the modern state"s sovereignty & legitimacy: a sovereign state claims supreme & exclusive authority to rule over a clearly bordered territory and that the population residing there constitutes a nation. Origins of the modern state: prior: medieval europe no monopolised central government, but shared among actors: prince, Parliament, the pope, roman emperor, dukes & counts; territory was partitioned, no effective centre capable of exerting its will over its disparate territories. James & vattel: sovereign states: deny being subject to any superior authority and object to external interference, free, independent & equal, neither hobbes or vattel believed ir to be entirely bereft of rules. Historical origins of the idea of state sovereignty: contrary to religious zealots who wanted to subordinate politics to religion, bodin. State-building as war-making: european rulers were drawn inexorably into war - states fashioned as "war machines, connection between state-building & organised violence:
