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to the effective ability to defend the institution.
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When I say defend, it I mean defend it.
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The next topic for us,
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if I've got the slides organized right,
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is the nation's state system, and what we have here
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is a question of narrow gauge state failure.
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The guy pictured is Thomas Hobbes,
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his great book The Leviathan,
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came out at the same time
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as the settlement to the Thirty Years War,
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more or less and they were two faces of the same thing.
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Hobbes' central idea of the leviathan