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In these talks, I'm very aware that I've just been giving not only one story about the modern state but one side of that story. I've

been focusing on writers who themselves focus on what goes on inside states, what

it's like to inhabit them, what it's like to be a citizen or a subject of a

modern sovereign power, what goes on inside the citizens head, what goes on inside

the citizens heart, what it's like to be inside the head

of a political leader, and I've been focusing on forms of breakdown that are internal to the

state, revolutions and civil wars. And the reason that's only

one side of the story is because of course a large part of modern politics is what

happens outside of states that is between them in the room. is what academics now tend to call international relations

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