Given these aims, it is the modern state, a relatively recent construct, which is redundant.
The first unambiguously modern state, Mr Fukuyama believes, was the Qin dynasty in China, founded in 221BC.
The expansion of the modern state has seemed to make administrative review inevitable.
Today's modern state is far larger than historic Montenegro, which for centuries was ruled as a theocracy by a prince-bishop.
Yet many governments (here Brazil is an exception) struggle to raise enough tax revenues to pay for a modern state.
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He is not a religious officer but, supremely, a servant of what will become the modern state, for good and ill.
It is important for the international community to sustain its engagement in Afghanistan, to help its emergence as a modern state.
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Last night, the Heritage Foundation hosted a screening of their documentary on the modern state of missile threats to the United States.
Ever since 1804, laments Lorraine Mangones of FOKAL, a local NGO, Haiti has been unable to overcome its history and create a modern state.
The rural poor are more at home with traditional forms of authority, such as village chiefs, than with the bureaucratic paraphernalia of a modern state.
Part of the solution involves tackling another longstanding failure: the government's inability to raise sufficient taxes to pay for the rudiments of a modern state.
The modern state had already been developed by Napoleon and Bismarck.
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Three centuries ago, when Peter the Great was trying to turn feudal, agrarian Russia into a modern state, he encountered a major source of friction inside the system.
Set in "Some place calling itself Rome, " but filmed, very tellingly, in battle-scarred Serbia and Montenegro, "Coriolanus" imagines a modern state rocked by food shortages and border disputes.
The critics point out that Honduras, like several other Central American countries, fails to raise enough tax revenue to pay for even the bare bones of a modern state.
And the message so far from Sao Paulo, which prides itself on being Brazil's most modern state, is that voters may love to see inflation brought down, but not fiscal deficits.
Rama V (1868-1910) inherited his father's diplomatic skills and encouraged the beginnings of a modern state, with good communications and an education system that eventually led to the revolt of the middle classes.
The modern state had its uses (and may still have some) but in order to justify its existence it has to take many decisions out of the hands of those who are most suited to make them.
It has never been hard to see the shortcomings, and at times the absurdities, of the neo-Hellenic project: the revival of classical glories in the shape of a smallish modern state whose people have by turns been inspired and depressed by their awesome heritage.
Central American governments do not collect enough tax revenue to provide the rudiments of a modern state: security, education and health for their people, and transport infrastructure to allow their economies to reap the full benefit of their privileged position close to the United States.
That a modern state was searching, at great expense and at a cost to its own war effort, to find a fifteen-year-old girl in an attic in Amsterdam in order to get her on a train bound for a concentration camp in Poland showed something new in the theatre of human action.
Sixty-four years ago, the United States became the first country in the world to recognize the State of Israel--the realization of a modern day state in the historic homeland of the Jewish People.
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By threatening this arrangement Veeck is challenging a basic feature of the modern regulatory state.
Many in the Arab world look to Turkey as a dynamic, modern Muslim state.
As to what they would have made of the modern welfare state, who can tell?
Vietnam set itself the goal of catching up with its neighbors, becoming a modern industrial state by 2020.
Other circumstances discredit the reality of assumed benefits of the modern regulatory state.
The progressive fantasy, shared by most American voters, is that a modern welfare state with expansive middle-class benefits can be sustained.
Again, the more transparent and modern the state is, the easier it will be to talk about means-testing currently universal benefits.
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