Define the state characteristics that you think deserves to be the focus of your paper. A state character can potentially be its regime type, sovereignty, territoriality, governance institutions, economic structure, security structure, its relationship with the population, etc.
As such, we leave it up to you to define which characteristic you wish to focus on in answering how the history of state formation impacts that characteristic or characteristics you chose. Our recommendation is that you should spend a little time in your assignment justifying why the character you chose is an important/defining feature of the state, before you delve into a substantive discussion on the impact of history on it. Due to the length of this assignment, we further recommend that you focus on one or two characteristics and draw from various examples and cases that support your overall argument.
