Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Origins of Political Order" in English language version.
[...] Fukuyama traces the evolution of hunter-gathering bands into tribes, which, with the aid of religion, transformed themselves into states so as to more effectively make war. [...] In Europe, Fukuyama highlights the role of the Roman Catholic Church in eradicating tribal customs, particularly pertaining to inheritance, and in instituting both the rule of law and separation of temporal and spiritual powers, developments which long preceded the mercantile individualism to which Marx, Weber and Niall Ferguson ascribe so much influence.
