SOCI 265 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Guerrilla Warfare, Identity Formation, Internal Control
20 Nov 2012
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Oct 22nd lecture different ways to form a state system. Lots of extremely weak states: states became strong because of war in europe. Fiscal extraction went up with endless competition. In africa war states make war, and war makes states didn"t work: partly because they really took to heart the norm proclaimed by the un in 1945 of not intervening outside your own borders. International recognition: low levels of taxation/ state-societal engagement, lack a sense of nationalism. Needs a place for econ dev: no strong state to create infrastructure, you need infrastructure in order to have bureaucracy, education, rules etc. It would be good if there were more wars in africa: because it would help bring states. Is this the only way to bring states: the quasi states in africa don"t fight much. Didn"t lead to multipolar politics but greater war to one powerful state, to an empirical form (until 1911)
