The Evolution of the State

In each of its key developmental periods, the state was forced to innovate in order to maintain itself. Sometimes these challenges arose with innovations in warfare such as the gunpowder revolution that crushed the princely states of the 16th century. In each of these periods, the constitutional order that became preeminent also changed the international order of the society of states. The peace treaty is written at these great conferences, which ended the apocal wars that preceded them and are really the constitutions of the Society of States.