Abstract

Este artigo examina um tema central, e um acirrado debate, dentro do campo da Ciência Política e das Relações Internacionais – a formação de estados modernos. O artigo delineia as principais narrativas que buscam explicar a formação do estado moderno na Europa Ocidental, nomeadamente: as narrativas econômica, gerencial e militar. Ao invés de buscar observar qual narrativa possui um maior poder explicativo relativamente às outras, entende-se que cada narrativa, bem como os autores dentro das mesmas, como uma parte importante de um mosaico teórico que busca entender e explicar o processo dúbio, não-linear e diverso que é a formação do estado moderno. Desse modo, este artigo delineia cada uma das narrativas acima mencionadas destacando seus argumentos, autores e raciocínios fundamentais. Finalmente, o artigo apresenta uma moldura teórica intermediária relativamente ao processo de formação do estado na Europa Ocidental, onde as diferentes narrativas podem encontrar-se de modo a proverem um entendimento mais alargado a respeito do processo pelo qual o estado moderno formou-se.

Highlights

  • This paper deals with a still very pressing topic, and lively debate, withinPolitical Science and International Relations – the formation of modern states

  • This happened trough: (1) the appropriation of offices by the ruler; (2) their filling with a new corps of university-educated people without any right to the office; and (3) their organization in a functional manner (ERTMAN, 2005). He sees that this transformation, for Weber, was “promoted by [the] needs arising from the creation of standing armies, determined by power politics, and from the related development of public finances” (WEBER, [1922] 1978, p. 972). This point, according to Ertman (2005), approximates Weber to an argument developed by the military narrative that sees in the geopolitical competition and threat of war across Europe the basic explanation for its state formation process

  • Throughout the paper, three main explanatory narratives of the process, namely the economic, a managerial, and a military narrative are analyzed. Each of these narratives has a major thinker having a decisive influence on the possible explanations for the emergence of the modern state

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This paper deals with a still very pressing topic, and lively debate, withinPolitical Science and International Relations – the formation of modern states. Delineates, and most importantly, agglutinates the main narratives that seek to explain the formation of the modern state in Western Europe.

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