Twentieth-century theorists have presented different approaches to the state as a political entity. ...

Twentieth-century theorists have presented different approaches to the state as a political entity. For example, Michel Foucault studied the state by exploring the ways that power, knowledge, and discourse operate in concert to produce particular kinds of state subjects. What is a second approach?

A-to view the state through the lens of competition and environmental determinism
B-to study the state as either a place or a territory
C-to explore the state as an ideological and supportive entity
D-to explore the state as a force, best thought of as a machine whose purpose is to regulate and dominate
E-to explore the state as a competition between institutions and society