ABSTRACT
In the introduction, I made clear that the aim of this book is to answer – or at least partially answer – some of the ‘big questions’ of social science (cf. Mahoney and Rueschemeyer 2003, 7; Skocpol 2003, 409). More particularly, the book revolves around three general questions:
(1) What are the causes of the state-formation process that has culminated in the modern territorial state/nation-state?
