Outline the characteristics of the modern states?

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   Outline the characteristics of the modern states?
   

Modern states are complex entities with many facets.Some are huge , some are tiny, some are powerful and some are quite weak. They all share four key characteristics, though, that we can use to identify modern states and distuinguish them from oyher types of political entities a claimover territory, external and internal sovereignty a claim to legitimacy and bureaucracy.

Political development the orign and development of the modern state is the starting poimt for the study of comporative politics. What do we mean by the modern state? In everyday language state is often used interchangeable with both country and nation, but political scienists use the term in a more specific way. Country, the most common term in daily discourse is not used in poltical science because its meaning is too vague.

2 Explain how levels of analysis help us explain the causes of wars?

In Order to understand the casual factors of war we have to define what war is and reverse engineer how and why these parties escalated their relations to a violent level of conflict . War is organized violence among groups it changes with historical and social context and in the minds of those who wage it, it is fought for some purpose , according to some category or plan .

War is creation of human nature. Phychological variables, feelinfs, and behavioral traits of humankind are just few of the wide range of variables that comprisewhat is the basic human experience.

Additionally war can either be international, involving more than one sovereign state or civil war, existing within state