THEORY OF STATE FORMATION

THE MILITARY PERSPECTIVE

•Historically, •Social peace owed much to West’s public intervention and regulation of economic and social processes•Welfare state moderates social conflict•Juridical and political dev’t•Increasing significance of nationalism, citizenship•Contrasting idea of state and markes

WHERE, WHEN, HOW AND WHY THE STATE CAME INTO BEING

AND BECOME THE KEY POLITICAL INSTITUTION?

THE MILITARY PERSPECTIVE

SIGNIFICANCE OF WAR

•War Making

•Concern on maintaining its military might

“By state, we mean a way in which violence is organized. The state consists of individuals in possession of firearms and weaponry and willing to put them to use; in the version of political organization found in the modern world, these individuals claim the monopoly of such use.. The state is, in the first instance, the army and the police.” (Collins, 1975:181)