Format:
Online-Ressource (viii, 419 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0521812771
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052101218X
Content:
This edited volume hopes to raise questions about the newness and political relevance of 'irregular' forms of armed force, about the conditions under which they are more significant than conventional military personnel in supplanting or undermining states, and about the overall role of irregular armed force in national political development
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Contemporary Challenges and Historical Reflections on the Study of Militaries, States, and Politic; 2 Armed Force, Regimes, and Contention in Europe since 1650; 3 Limited War and Limited States; 4 Where Do All the Soldiers Go?; 5 Military Mobilization and the Transformation of Property Relationships; 6 Send a Thief to Catch a Thief; 7 Reform and Reaction; 8 Policing the People, Building the State; 9 War-Making and U.S. State Formation; 10 Politics Is Thicker Than Blood
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11 The Police Municipale and the Formation of the French State12 Domestic Militarization in a Transnational Perspective; 13 The Changing Nature of Warfare and the Absence of State-Building in West Africa; 14 The Ghost of Vietnam; 15 Armed Forces, Coercive Monopolies, and Changing Patterns of State Formation and Violence; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521812771
Additional Edition:
Print version Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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