“The essential thing is the interplay between fatality, technology, and capitalism” set the stage for nationalism/the modern nation. Excerpts from one of my favourite books Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51