And it's a vision of cultural evolution which conveniently culminates in Western-style states. I wonder why that is?
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Sure, that particular intellectual history emerges in Europe, but that's not the only place we see the state, or thinking about the state. Take a look at how the polity is imagined, for instance, in the Book of Lord Shang (China, 3rd cent BC) and you find...the state.
Both in practice - he is imagining a polity that clearly has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force - and in intellectual conception as an entity controlled by but distinct from its ruler.
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So while this concept as it informed Weber and from him modern political science came from the European tradition, it didn't have to. It's the mistake of declaring physics unavoidably Eurocentric because Isaac Newton was a Brit.
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And as a classification and description, it has tremendous value because non-state actors often function quite differently from states, both today and historically. I see little doubt that if the term did not exist, we should have to invent it.
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