Is the State Indefinite of Finite as a Social Phenomenon? Review of the Monograph by V.Ya. Lyubashits and N.V. Razuvaev "The Evolution of the State: Historical Dynamics and Theoretical Model" (Moscow: RIOR: Infra-M Publ., 2018. 533 p.)

Abstract

The review provides a detailed analysis of the book "The Evolution of the State: Historical Dynamics and Theoretical Mode". The reviewer emphasizes such issues raised in the book as the interpretation of the concept "state", the age of the state, the concept and features of the state, protostate, typology of the state and its future. Some of the authors' ideas are criticized. In particular, the concept of the state today can not be reduced to its four classic features: territory, population, sovereignty and power, because the view on this social phenomenon has become more profound and multidimensional. The state has many additional features. The reviewer also criticises the idea of the classification of states as not based on a single criterion and flawed from a logical standpoint. The authors of the book are rebuked for the reluctance to address the issue of the future of the state, which today is not quite so straightforward.