PO101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nationstates, European Balance Of Power, Extortion
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Produces armies, navies and supporting services: state making/reinforcing/control. Produces instruments of surveillance and control (police: protection of clients (citizens) In addition to armies and police, state produce courts and representative assemblies: extraction (taxes) Acquiring the means of carrying other state functions. Produces fiscal and accounting structures for the modern state: why different types of states, popular resistance to war and state making through violence makes a difference between various nation-states. Examples of england, france and germany: the relative balance between war making, protection of clients, extortion and state making produces different organizational models of nation-states. England with the role of the parliament: holland with he strong independent capitalist class, the european state system, roots in the treaty of westphalia (1648), which establishes 3 principles: The sovereignty of states and their fundamental right to self-determination. Ultimately, government is an agency that regulates behaviour in the society.