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Who is credited with formulating the modern concept of nation state which possesses the legitimate monopoly of use of force ?
Answer: B
The concept is credited to Max Weber.
In 'Politics as a Vocation' (1919), Weber defined the modern state as a human community that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. The definition is still the standard starting point for discussing what a state is.
Machiavelli wrote about acquiring and keeping power, but not in these terms. Plato's concern was the just city, and Marx saw the state as an instrument of class rule rather than defining it by legitimate force.
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