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Discuss the changing nature of modern state with reference to transnational actors.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 15 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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The modern state, in Max Weber's definition, claims a monopoly of legitimate violence over a territory and, in the Westphalian tradition, recognises no authority above it. Transnational actors (firms, NGOs, networks, platforms) now share functions the state once held by default. The question is whether this marks its decline or its reconfiguration.

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  • From a single sovereign to many centres
  • What has changed
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