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This engaging volume scrutinises the causal relationship between warfare and state formation, using Charles Tilly's work as a foundation.
Author : Lars Bo Kaspersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1107141508
This engaging volume scrutinises the causal relationship between warfare and state formation, using Charles Tilly's work as a foundation.
Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Military art and science
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Author : Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on States and Social Structures
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 1985-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521313131
Papers from a conference held at Mount Kisco, N.Y., Feb. 1982, sponsored by the Committee on States and Social Structures, the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies, and the Joint Committee on Western European Studies of the Social Science Research Council. Includes bibliographies and index.
Author : Claire Vergerio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 100911686X
Who has the right to wage war? The answer to this question constitutes one of the most fundamental organizing principles of any international order. Under contemporary international humanitarian law, this right is essentially restricted to sovereign states. It has been conventionally assumed that this arrangement derives from the ideas of the late-sixteenth century jurist Alberico Gentili. Claire Vergerio argues that this story is a myth, invented in the late 1800s by a group of prominent international lawyers who crafted what would become the contemporary laws of war. These lawyers reinterpreted Gentili's writings on war after centuries of marginal interest, and this revival was deeply intertwined with a project of making the modern sovereign state the sole subject of international law. By uncovering the genesis and diffusion of this narrative, Vergerio calls for a profound reassessment of when and with what consequences war became the exclusive prerogative of sovereign states.
Author : David Vine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0520385683
2020 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, History A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global U.S. empire. Drawing on historical and firsthand anthropological research in fourteen countries and territories, The United States of War demonstrates how U.S. leaders across generations have locked the United States in a self-perpetuating system of permanent war by constructing the world’s largest-ever collection of foreign military bases—a global matrix that has made offensive interventionist wars more likely. Beyond exposing the profit-making desires, political interests, racism, and toxic masculinity underlying the country’s relationship to war and empire, The United States of War shows how the long history of U.S. military expansion shapes our daily lives, from today’s multi-trillion–dollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday U.S. life. The book concludes by confronting the catastrophic toll of American wars—which have left millions dead, wounded, and displaced—while offering proposals for how we can end the fighting.
Author : Jari Eloranta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811016054
This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from different fields of social and human sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the study of societal development. The types of big issues analyzed in this volume include the formation of European and non-European states in the early modern and modern period, the emergence of various forms of states and eventually modern democracies with extensive welfare states, the violent upheavals that influenced these processes, the persistence of dictatorships and non-democratic forms of government, and the arrival of total war and its consequences, especially in the context of twentieth-century world wars. One of the key themes is the dichotomy between democracies and dictatorships; namely, what were the origins of their emergence and evolution, why did some revolutions succeed and other fail, and why did democracies, on the whole, emerge victorious in the twentieth-century age of total wars? The contributions in this book are written with academic and non-academic audiences in mind, and both will find the broad themes discussed in this volume intuitive and useful.
Author : Andreas Wimmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1107025559
A new perspective on how the nation-state emerged and proliferated across the globe, accompanied by a wave of wars. Andreas Wimmer explores these historical developments using social science techniques of analysis and datasets that cover the entire modern world.
Author : R. Harrison Wagner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 2007-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0472069810
Exposes the deep logical contradictions of Realist political thought and counters it with a new, more robust theory of war
Author : Robert P. Saldin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139491873
This book examines major foreign conflicts from the Spanish-American War through Vietnam, arguing that international conflicts have strong effects on American political parties, elections, state development, and policymaking. First, major wars expose and highlight problems requiring governmental solutions or necessitating emergency action. Second, despite well-known curtailments of civil liberties, wars often enhance democracy by drawing attention to the contributions of previously marginalized groups and facilitating the extension of fuller citizenship rights to them. Finally, wars affect the party system. Foreign conflicts create crises - many of which are unanticipated - that require immediate attention, supplant prior issues on the policy agenda, and engender shifts in party ideology. These new issues and redefinitions of party ideology frequently influence elections by shaping both elite and mass behavior.
Author : Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108639798
Although today's richest countries tend to have long histories of secure private property rights, legal-titling projects do little to improve the economic and political well-being of those in the developing world. This book employs a historical narrative based on secondary literature, fieldwork across thirty villages, and a nationally representative survey to explore how private property institutions develop, how they are maintained, and their relationship to the state and state-building within the context of Afghanistan. In this predominantly rural society, citizens cannot rely on the state to enforce their claims to ownership. Instead, they rely on community-based land registration, which has a long and stable history and is often more effective at protecting private property rights than state registration. In addition to contributing significantly to the literature on Afghanistan, this book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on property rights and state governance from the new institutional economics perspective.