So I disagree - there is nothing particularly 'western' or 'European' about the state. If anything, a frank investigation of the origins of states makes clear that the state emerged outside of Europe and was (at multiple points) an imported innovation, like so many other things.
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The point isn't binary at all. The existence of grey does not imply the non-existence of black or white. States can be all sorts of things: weak, strong, centralized, decentralized, failed. We can talk about early states, proto-states, deconsolidating states...
...a whole spectrum of levels of state-ness and non-state-ness. And almost any time spent in the security-studies or poli-sci space will reveal quite a lot of that discussion going on. But to have that discussion, there has to be some sense of what a state is for classification
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I understand the instinct to reduce everything to 'communities,' - each one resembling only itself - but there are reasons we classify things for greater understanding. 'State' is a useful classification, understood to exist on a spectrum, to apply to polities.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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