By Prince Hans-Adam
Prince Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein is ready to examine the trendy countryside from many various angles: as a head of kingdom; as a political candidate, who needed to win well known votes in an immediate democracy; as a businessman lively in numerous continents; and as an historian who has studied the effect of army know-how, transportation and the economic climate at the workings of the kingdom.
The nation within the 3rd Millennium analyzes the forces that experience formed human historical past long ago and tend to accomplish that for the foreseeable destiny. those contain religions, ideologies, army expertise and economics. Prince Hans-Adam explores how you can make the normal democratic constitutional nation either extra democratic and extra effective. He additionally discusses techniques on the right way to realize all over the world the trendy democratic constitutional country within the 3rd millennium. He observes that electorate may still not be seen as servants of the country, yet really that states be switched over into benevolent provider businesses which serve the folks as their shoppers.
This is a chic, unique and lucidly argued paintings so that it will allure all scholars and observers of contemporary statecraft.
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It was certainly one of the major challenges of human evolution to find the right balance between egoistic individuality and social behavior. The herd instinct and the egoistic anti-social behavior of many people are the result of this evolution. Obviously, we need both of them, otherwise human society either falls apart or stagnates. Neither the herd instinct nor the egoistic behavior of the individual should dominate the state and society; rather, a very fine balance has to be found between the two.
A closer analysis over long periods, however, reveals that a number of factors influence the size of states. Geographic conditions have a role to play. Flat, easily traversable terrain is difficult to defend and simplifies the development of larger states. Mountainous and inaccessible terrain, as well as islands, are easily defended and improve the chances for the survival of small states. Over the course of history, we see still other factors that influence the size of nations. Military technology and transportation systems play a decisive role.
As already mentioned, monarchies tried to replace religious legitimation with dynastic legitimation. ” This attempt to replace religious by dynastic legitimation failed in France with the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century and in the other European states in the 19th and 20th centuries. In a world where religion has lost its influence and in states with religious freedom, one can understand why religious legitimation cannot remain the intellectual foundation for a state. The question is, however, why dynastic legitimation failed after such a short period of time.
