532. Prince Hans-Adam II - The State in the Third Millennium

Hans-Adam II Te Reining Prince o Liechtenstein Te State in the Tird Millennium

224 pages Format: 156 x 235 mm Clothbound with dust jacket CHF 49.80 / € 34.00 (D) /€ 35.00 (A) ISBN: 978-3-905881-04-2 van Eck Verlag, riesen 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 d ecades o experience as ruler r uler o a constitutional monarchy 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 in a direct democracy; as a businessman active in dierent continents; and as an -historian who has studied the inuence 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 human history in the past and are likely to do so or the oreseeable uture. Prince Hans-Adam explores strategies on how to realize worldwide the modern democratic constitutional state in the third millennium. He observes that citizens should no longer be viewed as servants o the state, but rather that states be converted into benevolent service companies which serve the people as their customers. Prince Hans-Adam’ Hans-Adam’s explorations o governance range wide, including his analysis o direct and indirect democracies via the experience o the American Revolution and the Swiss Constitution o 1848. He draws lessons on opportunities or reorm derived rom his own observations o Liechtenstein’s Liechtenstein’s paths to political reorm. Tis is an elegant, original, and lucidly argued work which will attract all students and observers o modern statecrat.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction 1. Te right to sel-determination—a personal conviction 2. Te origins o the state 3. Te role o religion in the ormation o the state 4. Te size o states and the inuence o military technology 5. Monarchy, oligarc oligarchy, hy, democr democracy acy 6. Te American Revolution and indirect democracy 7. Te Swiss constitution o 1848 and the path to direct democracy 8. Liechtenstein’’s constitutional reorm o 2003 Liechtenstein 9. Te defciencies o traditional democracy 10. Te state o the uture 10.1 Te constitutional state 10.2 Te welare state 10.3 Te education system 10.4 ransportation 10.5 Public fnances 10.6 Te national currency 10.7 Other state duties 11   A constitution or the state o the uture 12. Strategies to achieve the state o the uture 13.   A perspective on the third millennium   Appendix: A drat constitution or the state in the third millennium Index

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