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Comparative Series E01: State Strength and War Making

Comparative Series E01: State Strength and War Making

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In the first installment of our series on Comparative politics, Hunter and Liddell discuss state strength via Tilly's foundational piece comparing the first states to organized crime rackets. We then go over Herbst's use of Tilly's argument, explaining state weakness in Africa. We conclude with Posner's excellent natural experiment studying ethnic fractionalization in Zambia and Malawi

(6:30) Tilly's War Making and the State

(19:30) Herbst State Weakness in Africa

(33:00) Ethnic and Civic Nationalism

(57:00) State Transitions and State Failure

(1:04:00) Posner's Natural Experiment in Africa

(1:14:00) Ethnic Nationalism and the 2015 Immigration Crisis


Charles Tilly, 1985. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime

Jeffrey Herbst, 1990. “War and the State in Africa"

Daniel Posner, 2004. “The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi

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