For 10 points, identify this political entity that enforces sovereignty over a select area.
During the 1970s, the nature of this entity was debated by the Marxist theorists Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas. A 1998 book about the way this entity's need to standardize and simplify information worked with high-modernist ideology to obscure local knowledge and fuel man-made calamities is subtitled "How Certain Schemes to Improve the Local Condition Have Failed." James Scott wrote a book about Seeing Like [this entity]. Warnings about this entity's use of a rediscovered veneration of mythology comprise the final work by Ernst Cassirer. Charles Tilly's work about the formation of this entity inspired the refrain that (*) "war made [this entity], and [this entity] made war." Along with human motivation and the anarchic system, the makeup of this entity also drives war according to the magnum opus of Kenneth Waltz, in which it serves as the second title concept. Max Weber's Politics as a Vocation defined it as the entity monopolizing a territory's legitimate use of violence. For 10 points, identify this political entity that enforces sovereignty over a select area.
During the 1970s, the nature of this entity was debated by the Marxist theorists Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas.
The State