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9780511510038
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Existing models of state formation are derived primarily from early Western European experience, and are misleading when applied to nation-states struggling to consolidate their dominion in the present period. In this volume, scholars suggest that the Western European model of armies waging war on behalf of sovereign states does not hold universally. The importance of 'irregular' armed forces - militias, guerrillas, paramilitaries, mercenaries, bandits, vigilantes, police, and so on - has been seriously neglected in the literature on this subject. The case studies in this book suggest, among other things, that the creation of the nation-state as a secure political entity rests as much on 'irregular' as regular armed forces. For most of the 'developing' world, the state's legitimacy has been difficult to achieve, constantly eroding or challenged by irregular armed forces within a country's borders. No account of modern state formation can be considered complete without attending to irregular forces
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Contemporary challenges and historical reflections on the study of militaries, states, and politics
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Reform and reaction : paramilitary groups in contemporary Colombia
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Armed force, regimes, and contention in Europe since 1650
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Limited war and limited states
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Where do all the soldiers go? : veterans and the politics of demobilization
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Military mobilization and the transformation of property relationships : wars that defined the Japanese style of capitalism
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Send a thief to catch a thief : state-building and the employment of irregular military formations in mid-nineteenth-century Greece
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Policing the people, building the state : the police-military nexus in Argentina, 1880-1945
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War-making and U.S. state formation : mobilization, demobilization, and the inherent ambiguities of federalism
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Politics is thicker than blood : Union and Confederate veterans in the U.S. House of Representatives in the late nineteenth century
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Police municipale and the formation of the French state
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Domestic militarization in a transnational perspective : patriotic and militaristic youth mobilization in France and Indochina, 1940-1945
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Changing nature of warfare and the absence of state-building in West Africa
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Ghost of Vietnam : America confronts the new world disorder
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Armed forces, coercive monopolies, and changing patterns of state formation and violence
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521812771
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521012188
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521812771
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511510038
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