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Why Do we Need the State?

BBC World Service - The Forum, Why Do we Need the State?

Is it time to rethink what a modern state is for?

Is it time to rethink what a modern state is for? With historian Timothy Snyder, social policy researcher Benjamin Leruth and Adrian Wooldridge.

Samira Ahmed is joined by World War Two historian Timothy Snyder who sees Hitler as the ultimate state destroyer, Belgian social policy researcher Benjamin Leruth who has been getting European citizens to be honest about what they really like and loathe about the EU, and writer Adrian Wooldridge who thinks authoritarian Singapore is a model for how to run an efficient state in the 21st Century.

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