POLS 2100 Lecture Notes - Nationstates, Liberal Democracy
23 Jan 2014
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Political processes often overtime evolved out of bargaining between parties. The process that made europe homogeneous was war (from tilly"s perspective) Major states became a centre for commerce and trade, as things like laws and legal documents became deseminated, people started to speak a common dialect. People could now identify themselves through the institutions they share with the many thousands of people they"ve never met. Tillian perspective focuses on a much more violent process (darwinian struggle for survival) Tillian perspective suggest that war and conflict had developmental benefits as it forced states to get their acts together or else they wouldn"t have survived. In the 1960s europeans realized colonialism was not a good thing and they left africa. Africa and other countries never had the benefit of wars in terms of state formation. States did not have to fight for survival the way europeans had to. State formation in the developing world: most former colonial states maintained their colonial borders.
