The monograph is devoted to the problems of origins, development and present condition of statehood. It also provides forecasts of political development in the coming decades. The book presents a new approach to the causes and models of the emergence of state and competing with it political forms (early state analogues) and new models of state evolution. Today in full swing are the processes of states nature and functions change and countries integration into supranational communities. In the last chapter there are explained reasons of the inexplicable, at first glance,...