[PDF] The State War And The State Of War eBook

Author : Kalevi Jaakko Holsti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521577908

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War has traditionally been studied as a problem deriving from the relations between states. Strategic doctrines, arms control agreements, and the foundation of international organizations such as the United Nations are designed to prevent wars between states. Since 1945, however, the incidence of interstate war has actually been declining rapidly, while the incidence of internal wars has been increasing. The author argues that in order to understand this significant change in historical patterns, we should jettison many of the analytical devices derived from international relations studies and shift attention to the problems of 'weak' states, those states unable to sustain domestic legitimacy and peace. This book surveys some of the foundations of state legitimacy and demonstrates why many weak states will be the locales of war in the future. Finally, the author asks what the United Nations can do about the problems of weak and failed states.

Author : Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108639798

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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.

Author : R. Harrison Wagner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2007-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0472069810

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Exposes the deep logical contradictions of Realist political thought and counters it with a new, more robust theory of war

Author : Alexander Anievas
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 047205211X

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Tracing how the emergence of global capitalism gave rise to the Thirty Years' Crisis

Author : Lars Bo Kaspersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1107141508

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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 : Bruce D. Porter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1439105480

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States make war, but war also makes states. As Publishers Weekly notes, “Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars have been catalysts for increasing the size and power of Western governments since the Renaissance. The state’s monopoly of effective violence has diminished not only individual rights and liberties, but also the ability of local communities and private associates to challenge the centralization of authority. Porter’s originality lies in his thesis that war, breaking down barriers of class, gender, ethnicity, and ideology, also contributes to meritocracy, mobility, and, above all, democratization. Porter also posits the emergence of the “Scientific Warfare State,” a political system in which advanced technology would render obsolete mass participation in war. This provocative study merits wide circulation and serious discussion.”

Author : James T. Sparrow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0199791074

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Although common wisdom and much scholarship assume that "big government" gained its foothold in the United States under the auspices of the New Deal during the Great Depression, in fact it was the Second World War that accomplished this feat. Indeed, as the federal government mobilized for war it grew tenfold, quickly dwarfing the New Deal's welfare programs. Warfare State shows how the federal government vastly expanded its influence over American society during World War II. Equally important, it looks at how and why Americans adapted to this expansion of authority. Through mass participation in military service, war work, rationing, price control, income taxation, and the war bond program, ordinary Americans learned to live with the warfare state. They accepted these new obligations because the government encouraged all citizens to think of themselves as personally connected to the battle front, linking their every action to the fate of the combat soldier. As they worked for the American Soldier, Americans habituated themselves to the authority of the government. Citizens made their own counter-claims on the state-particularly in the case of industrial workers, women, African Americans, and most of all, the soldiers. Their demands for fuller citizenship offer important insights into the relationship between citizen morale, the uses of patriotism, and the legitimacy of the state in wartime. World War II forged a new bond between citizens, nation, and government. Warfare State tells the story of this dramatic transformation in American life.

Author : Thomas Conlan
Publisher : U of M Center for Japanese Studies
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :

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A path-breaking study of the transformative power of war and its profound influence on 14th-century Japan

Author : Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on States and Social Structures
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 1985-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521313131

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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.