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Examine the role of Bismarck in state building in Germany.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Nation-State System

Otto von Bismarck's state-building extended well beyond the three wars of unification into the deliberate construction of the German Empire's constitutional, religious, and social order after 1871.

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  • Engineering Unification, 1862-1871
  • Constructing the Constitutional Architecture of the Empire
  • The Kulturkampf: Nation-Building Against the Catholic Church
  • Anti-Socialist Laws and the Birth of State Welfare
  • Diplomatic Consolidation: Germany as a 'Satiated Power'

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