INTL 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Capital, Moral Authority, Bourgeoisie
4 Feb 2016
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A modern state aims to fulfill many functions and objectives related to their population and other states functions: state capacity- a state"s ability to fulfill the most common and necessary of these. Taxation, defense, policing, economic management, investment in human capital (education, healthcare, etc) These tasks can change over time, most are actually fairly recent: public education, basic access to healthcare, power grid and clean water. Why the us is not green in the fragile states index 2014: government shutdown, extended periods of warfare, mistrust of police, municipal level failures. Up until the 16th century, there were few, if any, strong states. Now, statehood is the goal of any large scale society. Ability to mobilize collective endeavors- rubber drives, war bonds: proponents of the bellicist theory use it to explain strong statehood in europe- all of the little wars that happened, flaws in the theory.
