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Hans-Adam IITe Reining Prince o Liechtenstein

Te State in the Tird Millennium

224 pagesFormat: 156 x 235 mmClothbound with dust jacketCHF 49.80 / 34.00 (D) / 35.00 (A)ISBN: 978-3-905881-04-2van Eck Verlag, riesen

www.vaneckverlag.li

What should the state look like in the third millennium? Tat is the question

addressed in this book by Hans-Adam II, Te Reigning Prince o Liechtenstein,drawing on two decades o experience as ruler o a constitutional monarchy.

Prince Hans-Adam is able to look at the modern nation-state rom many di-erent angles: as a head o state; as a politician, who had to win popular votes ina direct democracy; as a businessman active in dierent continents; and as an-historian who has studied the inuence o military technology, transportation,and the economy on the workings o the state.

Te State in the Tird Millennium analyzes the orces that have shaped humanhistory in the past and are likely to do so or the oreseeable uture. PrinceHans-Adam explores strategies on how to realize worldwide the modern demo-

cratic constitutional state in the third millennium. He observes that citizensshould no longer be viewed as servants o the state, but rather that states beconverted into benevolent service companies which serve the people as theircustomers.

Prince Hans-Adams explorations o governance range wide, including hisanalysis o direct and indirect democracies via the experience o the AmericanRevolution and the Swiss Constitution o 1848. He draws lessons on opportu-nities or reorm derived rom his own observations o Liechtensteins paths topolitical reorm.

Tis is an elegant, original, and lucidly argued work which will attract all students

and observers o modern statecrat.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction 11.Te right to sel-determinationa personal conviction 5

2.Te origins o the state 17

3.Te role o religion in the ormation o the state 21

4.Te size o states and the inuence o military technology 31

5.Monarchy, oligarchy, democracy 45

6.Te American Revolution and indirect democracy 59

7.Te Swiss constitution o 1848 and the path to direct democracy 63

8.Liechtensteins constitutional reorm o 2003 69

9.Te defciencies o traditional democracy 77

10.Te state o the uture 85

10.1Te constitutional state 91

10.2Te welare state 107

10.3Te education system 117

10.4ransportation 121

10.5Public fnances 127

10.6Te national currency 135

10.7Other state duties 147

11 A constitution or the state o the uture 151

12.Strategies to achieve the state o the uture 157

13. A perspective on the third millennium 177

Appendix: A drat constitution or the state in the third millennium 183

Index 203