EVOLUTION OF THE "STATE"

Professor Philip Bobbitt described the origin of the modern state in the Renaissance era and its evolution through several different forms until the present day, in his landmark book Shield of Achilles published in . He further developed this concept and applied it to the threat 'terrorism' poses to societies and states in Terror and Consent: The wars for the Twenty-first Century, published in 2008.

Here I will attempt to summarize Professor Bobbitt's ideas.