... beginning with Admiral Mahan in the final decade of the 1800s, continuing with Halford Mackinder and Nicholas Spykmanduring the middle of the twentieth century, and ending with ColinGray in the ... form of “social contract,”nationalism representing the commitment by the citizen to the well-being of the state, welfarism the commitment by the state to the well-being of the citizen (a point ... farther back, to the authors of the Bible, as well as the writings of Hobbes, Rousseau, and others, who warned that, in the absence of government, there is only a “State of Nature,” the “war of every...