Does War Make States?
Title | Does War Make States? PDF eBook |
Author | Lars Bo Kaspersen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107141508 |
This engaging volume scrutinises the causal relationship between warfare and state formation, using Charles Tilly's work as a foundation.
Does War Make States?
Title | Does War Make States? PDF eBook |
Author | Lars Bo Kaspersen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1316594793 |
Arising from renewed engagement with Charles Tilly's canonical work on the relationship between war and state formation, this volume situates Tilly's work in a broader theoretical landscape and brings it into contemporary debates on state formation theory. Starting with Tilly's famous dictum 'war made the state, and the state made war', the book takes his claim further, examining it from a philosophical, theoretical and conceptual view, and asking whether it is applicable to non-European regions such as the Middle East, South America and China. The authors question Tilly's narrow view of the causal relationship between warfare and state-making, and use a positive yet critical approach to suggest alternative ways to explain how the state is formed. Readers will gain a comprehensive view of the most recent developments in the literature on state formation, as well as a more nuanced view of Charles Tilly's work.
On War
Title | On War PDF eBook |
Author | Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Military art and science |
ISBN |
Bringing the State Back In
Title | Bringing the State Back In PDF eBook |
Author | Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on States and Social Structures |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1985-09-13 |
Genre | 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.
War, States, and International Order
Title | War, States, and International Order PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Vergerio |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2022-08-04 |
Genre | 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.
War and the State
Title | War and the State PDF eBook |
Author | R. Harrison Wagner |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2007-08-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0472069810 |
Exposes the deep logical contradictions of Realist political thought and counters it with a new, more robust theory of war
The United States of War
Title | The United States of War PDF eBook |
Author | David Vine |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2021-09-07 |
Genre | 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.