The State (2017)

Theoretical/cross-regional readings

Theda Skocpol, ch. 1 “Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research,” Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol, eds., Bringing the State Back In, Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 3-37.

Joel Migdal, “The State in Society: An Approach to Struggles for Domination,” in Joel S. Migdal, Atul Kohli, Vivienne Shue, eds., State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 7-36.

Tuong Vu, “Studying the State Through State Formation,” World Politics 62, 1, 2010, 148-175. John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, “The State of the State,” Foreign Affairs, Jul./Aug. 2014, 118-132.

Michael Mann, “Infrastructural Power Revisited,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 43, 3/4, 2008, pp. 355-365.

Hillel Soifer, “State Infrastructural Power: Approaches to Conceptualization and Measurement,” Studies in Comparative International Development, Sep. 43, 2008, pp. 231-251.

Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States, AD 990-1992, Blackwell 1992.

Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China, Cambridge University Press, 1979 (ch. 1 “Explaining Social Revolutions,” pp. 3-43).

Jeff Goodwin, No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991, Cambridge University Press, 2001 (pp. 3-16, 24-34, 40-50, 59-64, 250-253).

Alfred C. Stepan Juan J. Linz, Yogendra Yadav, “The Rise of ‘State-Nations’,” Journal of Democracy, 21, 3, 2010, pp. 50-68.

Peter Evans, “The State as a Problem and Solution: Predation, Embedded Autonomy, and Structural Change,” in Stephen Haggard and Robert Kaufman, eds., The Politics of Economic Adjustment, Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. 139-181.

Stephan Haggard, Pathways From The Periphery: The Politics Of Growth In The Newly Industrializing Countries, Cornell University Press 1990 (Part 1 “Theory: The Political Economy of Growth”, pp. 9-49, ch. 10 “Authoritarianism and Democracy”, pp. 254-270)

Francis Fukuyama, “The Imperative of State-Building,” Journal of Democracy 15, 2, 2004, pp. 17-31.

Jeffrey Herbst, “Let Them Fail,” in Robert Rotberg, ed., When States Fail, Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 302-318.

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Bridget L. Coggins, “Friends in High Places: International Politics and the Emergence of States from Secessionism,” International Organization 65, 3 July 2011, pp. 433-467.

Brian D. Taylor, and Roxana Botea, “Tilly Tally: War-Making and State-Making in the Contemporary Third Word,” International Studies Review 10, 1, 2008, pp. 27-56.

Zachariah Cherian Mampilly, Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War, Cornell University Press, 2011 (Introduction, pp. 1-24).

Regional

Sheldon D. Pollack, War, Revenue and State Building: Financing the Development of the American State, Cornell University Press, 2009.

Desmond King and Robert C. Lieberman, “Ironies of State Building: A Comparative Perspective on the American State,” World Politics 61, 3 2009, 547-588.

Marcus J. Kurtz, Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective: Social Foundations of Institutional Order, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Miguel Angel Centeno, Blood and Debt: War and The Nation-State in Latin America, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Hillel D. Soifer, State Building in Latin America, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Cameron G. Thies, “Public Violence and State Building in Central America,” Comparative Political Studies 39, 2006, 1263-1282.

Guillermo O’Donnell, “The State, Democratization and Some Conceptual Problems: A Latin American View With Glances at Some Postcommunist Countries,” World Development 21, 8, 1993, 1355-1369.

Brian D. Taylor, State Building in Putin’s Russia: Policing and Coercion after Communism, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Valerie Bunce, Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State, Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Sinisa Malesevic, “Wars that Make States and Wars that Make Nations: Organised Violence, Nationalism and State Formation in the Balkans,” European Journal of Sociology, 53, 1, 2012, 31-63.

Florian Bieber, "Building Impossible States? State-Building Strategies and EU Membership in the Western Balkans,” Europe-Asia Studies, 63, 2011, 1783-1802.

Venelin I. Ganev, “Post-Communism as an Episode of State-Building: A Reversed Tillyan Perspective,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 38, 2005, 425-445.

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Victoria Hui, War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (chs. 1, 2, 3).

Victoria Hui, “How Tilly’s Warfare Paradigm Is Revolutionizing the Study of Chinese State-Making,” in Lars Bo Kaspersen and Jeppe Strandsbjerg, eds., Does War Make States? Cambridge University Press, 2017, 268-295.

Dan Slater, “Revolutions, Crackdowns, and Quiescence: Communal Elites and Democratic Mobilization in Southeast Asia,” American Journal of Sociology, 115, 1, 2009, 203-254.

Alfred C. Stepan Juan J Linz, Yogendra Yadav, ch. 2 “India as a State-Nation: Shared Political Community amidst Deep Cultural Diversity,” Crafting State-Nations: India and Other Multinational Democracies, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, pp. 39-88.

Zoltan Barany, ch. 8 “After Colonial Rule in Asia: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh,” The Soldier and the Changing State: Building Democratic Armies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 245-274.

Michael N. Barnett, ch. 6 “War and The Transformation of State Power,” Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State, and Society in Egypt and Israel, Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. 210-243).

Ian S. Lustick, “The Absence of Middle Eastern Great Powers: Political ‘Backwardness’ in Historical Perspective,” International Organization, 51, 4, 1997, 653-683.

Terry Lynn Karl, “The Perils of the Petro-State: Reflections on the Paradox of Plenty,” Journal of International Affairs, 53, 1, 1999, 31-48.

Lisa Blaydes & Christopher Paik, “The Impact of Holy Land Crusades on State Formation: War Mobilization, Trade Integration, and Political Development in Medieval Europe,” International Organization, 70, 3, 2016, 551-586.

Etel Solingen, “Pax Asiatica Versus Bella Levantina: The Foundations of War and Peace in East Asia and the Middle East,” American Political Science Review 101, 4, 2007, 757-780.

Zoltan Barany, “The Role of the Military [in the Arab uprisings],” Journal of Democracy, Oct. 2011, 24-35.

Rolf Schwarz, War and State Building in the Middle East, University Press of Florida, 2012 (Introduction and ch. 1/pp.1-30).

Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control, Princeton University Press, 2000.

Catherine Boone, Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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David D. Laitin, ch. 9. “Hegemony and religious conflict: British imperial control and political cleavages in Yorubaland, in Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol, eds., Bringing the State Back In, Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 285-316.