The decline of the Westphalian state
The decline of the Westphalian state
A popular question over the past 50 years has been whether the modern state (modern, in the meaning of the type in which we currently live, which was formed around 1650 in theory by Hobbes and in practice by the Peace of Westphalia) is dead. This of course assumes tacitly that the state is something artificial, something that can die. In this way the question became a given. The state, however, can never come to an end, or die, because it is, as will be seen, natural to humans. In other words, as long as humans exist, their states will also exist.
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