Conceptualizing Politics

Part 1, Chapter 1, §17) some hundred years ago as the conceptual recapitulation 
of what the state had turned out to be (or rather to become) in modern history. 
I shall not enter the taxonomy of states or quasi-states having a population, but 
lacking a territory, or vice versa (in the case where the potential population is still 
strewn over other states). As to the monopoly, it regards not only that of military 
and police force,
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 since states do also own an exclusive authority in fundamen-
tal financial acts (minting currency, levying taxes) and in representing themselves 
towards other states (diplomacy). To illustrate all of this, one only needs to go back 
on the one hand to the rise of the European state, as it will happen below, and on 
the other hand to the reconstituting of China as a state (the People’s Republic of 
China, founded on 1 October 1949) implied for the victorious Communist Party 
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