2 State Formation and State Building
Lecture
Required Reading
Tilly, C. 1985. ‘War making and state making as organized crime,’ in Evans, P., Rueschemeyer, D. and Skocpol, T. Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 5.
Herbst, J. 2000. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chapters 1 and 2.
Recommended Reading
Centeno, M.A. 1997. ‘Blood and Debt: War and Taxation in Nineteenth-century Latin America,’ American Journal of Sociology, 102(6): 1565-1605. Presentation by Gabriele
Mazzuca, S. 2021. Latecomer State Formation: Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America. New Haven: Yale University Press. Chapter 1. Presentation by Alon