After World War II, states transformed into collective fortresses in order to protect competing ideological systems. The debate on post-modern statehood heavily built on ideological disputes between liberalism and communism, over the nature of the economic and social system, and the state and government that could sustain such a system. What is an ideologically acceptable state-concept; which tasks and fu- tions should the state fulfil, and how to legitimate not only democratic, but also authoritarian and even totalitarian regimes? These questions were at the very centre of state theory....
After World War II, states transformed into collective fortresses in order to protect competing ideological systems. The debate on post-modern stateho...