Over the decades, Israel itself became a modern state, one with more problems than most.

The question of the true identify for the modern state was core.

The Church, like the modern state, became a more centralized body.

The territory became the modern state of Alabama in 1819.

This is no way to manage a modern state with more than 10,000 nuclear weapons.

As a result, the structure of the modern state is distinctly military.

It is in our interest that Russia should develop into a modern, successful and democratic state.

But then, only recently has Turkey become a modern, secular state.

Russia was starting to assert itself as a modern state.

This meant that, by 1980, the country had developed into a modern territorial state under strong central control.