الدولة في الفكر الغربي الحديث: رؤية تأريخية

Today we may complain about the requirements of the state, and protest against its increasing encroachments, but it is impossible for us to think about life without it... This is what Professor Joseph R. Strayer says in his lecture that he delivered in the year 1061, at Princeton University in the United States of America. Eight years later, he expanded on this concept and explored its depth in a book he wrote entitled:
(The Intermediate Origins of the Modern State)) Les Origines Medievales De L etat Moderne, in which he emphasized an important fact, which is that the absence of the state means the tyranny of clan, ethnic, sectarian, religious, or ethnic ties. Hence, as he says, only the most backward and primitive peoples can dispense with the state, and when the modern world reaches it, they find themselves forced either to form into a state, or to unite under the shadow of an already existing state (1). Since we cannot escape from the state, we must try to know what the state is? When did it appear, what are its historical origins, what are its functions, on what principles was it formed, and what are the opinions of Western thinkers about its origin? What country?