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By special arrangement with the publisher (Cambridge University Press), the Mises Institute is very pleased to make available this hugely important work by the Israeli historian Martin van Creveld. The thesis is that the nation state as we've known it is a modern invention and a thorough failure,...

Recorded at the 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama. [52:12]

The secret of the state's rise was the separation of the ruler from the organization, says Martin van Creveld, who also predicts the state's demise...