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Threats to the state (5)

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Still room to move - Mosley
Stare-Market condominium (Underhill)
Non-homogeneity of globalisation (Cameron and Palan)
Different functions (C+P)
System of states provide infrastructure (Palan and Abbott)
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Usefulness of state to citizens quote

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Weber “the state is a human commodity that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory”

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Authors on usefulness of state

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van Staden and Hollard

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Latin for pre-just war theory

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Jus As Bellum

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Conditions required for just war

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Violence is proportional

Aiming to bring about a just peace

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Arbiter view, two things that should accompany state

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Constitution

Rival groups

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3 theorists for 3 variations of contractual view

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Rousseau (general will for common good)
Hobbes Leviathan
Locke Minimalist (never infringe on man’s natural rights)

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Marx quote on state

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“Committee for managing the common affairs of the bourgeoise”

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SRA (who, what, and what)

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Strategic relational Approach (Jessop)

State as an arena of various competing interests, reflection of social relations