States are temporal

No state has endured the test of time. Very few empires reached the thousand-year threshold; most city-states lasted far less time. The average life of a state does not exceed a few hundred years. Only a handful of modern states have a history longer than that. States are, therefore, temporal. They may outlast several human terms of life, but that does not mean that an end is never to be expected (as preposterous as this idea may seem to citizens currently living in relatively peaceful, or powerful, states). Each and every state has its own term of life.

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