POLS 2940 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 Reading Notes.docx
20 Jan 2014
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States, nations and allegiance: modern political discourse is usually understood on the basis of the geological world of nation states, state part of nation state" scholars have focused on the process by which states were formed by monopolizing violence within a bounded territory, as a variety of historical accounts have put it, the monopolizing of violence required disarming diverse sub state affiliated groupings, asserting fiscal control over the population and establishing recruitment procedures for armies and bureaucracies, all of these moves were aimed at securing territorial boundaries and centralizing and governmentally controlling all aspects of the population, in order to become a separately governed entity with centralized control, as a result, states are understood primarily as territorial entities with exclusive, coercively and legally supported sovereignty, nation building:
