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The concept of the [[state]] as a country's supreme legal entity has become an indispensible component of political analysis.  Although originally created by governments, the state has acquired a notional  existence that  is independent of the [[government]], [[country]] and [[nation]] with which it is associated. It has the characteristics of a [[corporation]] in its ability to enter into every form of legal and commercial transaction in the same way as an individual. There have been a number of different interpretations of the term and attitudes to the concept. It was seen  by [[Thomas Hobbes]] <ref>[http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-contents.html  Hobbes ''Leviathan''] </ref>  in the 17th century as the means of preventing the chaos of  a  “war of all against all”,
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==Index and Glossary==
There is an index to the topics dealt with in the economics articles [[Economics/Related Articles|here]], and a glossary of economic terms [[Economics/Glossary|here]].


Beginning with the French Revolution, which marked its transformation from a means into an end, to have a state of one's own became something of which people used to take extraordinary pride and for which they were often prepared to make every sacrifice including, where necessary, rivers of blo
See also the [[Politics/Index|'''index to the politics articles ''']].


<ref>[http://www.questia.com/read/105717112?title=The%20Rise%20and%20Decline%20of%20the%20State# Martin Van Creveld: ''The Rise and Decline of the State'' Cambridge University Press, 2004]</ref>
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|"''The European Union is something ...
very precious, not only for us in Europe, but also for the rest of the world. Because the European Union is, in fact, the result of a project for peace that brought together nations emerging from the ruins of the Second World War. It was the European Union that united them in peace around the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, justice, rule of law and respect for human rights.''"
 
:Merci Olsson, of Nobel Med, congratulating  President Barroso on the award of The Nobel Peace Prize t the European Union, 12 October 2012.
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Index and Glossary

There is an index to the topics dealt with in the economics articles here, and a glossary of economic terms here.

See also the index to the politics articles .

methodology

"The European Union is something ...
very precious, not only for us in Europe, but also for the rest of the world. Because the European Union is, in fact, the result of a project for peace that brought together nations emerging from the ruins of the Second World War. It was the European Union that united them in peace around the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, justice, rule of law and respect for human rights."
Merci Olsson, of Nobel Med, congratulating President Barroso on the award of The Nobel Peace Prize t the European Union, 12 October 2012.