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The Westphalian style of state building has been the main method of state construction ever since the peace of Westphalia. This system of construction is being replaced by the fragmentation of states into zones or territories that continue to have substantial geopolitical importance, which depict the motivations behind relations between states. This paper will show how the establishment of Israel has rearranged the traditional mode of state building. International institutions are now taking a bigger role in building states externally. Borders are becoming more less important as territory becomes more structured externally. Critical geopolitics offers a way to examine state building in a structural way, and sets up certain ways to define territory in this new age of geopolitical analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]