Table Of ContentDe-Centering State Making
De-Centering State
Making
Comparative and International Perspectives
Edited by
Jens Bartelson
Martin Hall
Jan Teorell
Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
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Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables viii
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgments xii
1 Introduction: de-centering state making 1
Jens Bartelson, Martin Hall and Jan Teorell
PART I WHAT MAKES A STATE?
2 Steppe state making 17
Martin Hall
3 De-centering federal origins: India and the contested
appropriation of federal democracy 38
Ted Svensson
4 The current developing state 59
Jonathan K. Hanson
PART II WHAT STATES DOES WAR MAKE?
5 When does war make states? War, rivalries and fiscal
extraction in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 85
Agustín Goenaga and Alexander von Hagen-Jamar
6 War and variation in the structure of historical international
systems: a theoretical model 112
Charles Butcher and Ryan Griffiths
7 Imagined states and clashing state-building processes in the
Bosnian space 131
Annika Björkdahl
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PART III STATE MAKING AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY
8 Configurations of semi-sovereignty in the long nineteenth
century 155
Arthur Learoyd
9 Acting like a state: non-European membership of
international organizations in the nineteenth century 175
Ellen Ravndal
PART IV CONCLUSION
10 Concentric circles: aporias of de-centering state making in
time and space 199
Janis Grzybowski
11 After de-centering: a new research agenda for state making 218
Jens Bartelson and Jan Teorell
Index 233
Figures
4.1 Evolution of Capacity in four countries 69
4.2 Evolution of mean Capacity by region 70
4.3 Change in Capacity and ethnic fractionalization 73
4.4 Change in Capacity and Polity Index 73
4.5 Change in Capacity and net aid transfers 74
5.1 Evolution of tax ratio and war 99
5.2 Evolution of tax ratio and war (cont.) 100
5.3 Evolution of tax ratio and war in Japan 101
5.4 Coefficients for war and tax ratio by country 102
5.5 Coefficients for rivalry on tax ratio by country 103
8.1 Four logics in interaction 167
9.1 IO memberships per country, 1906 179
9.2 Y ear of entry of non-European states and colonies in the
UPU (left) and the ITU (right), 1865–1915 183
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Tables
2.1 Theories of steppe state making 22
4.1 Descriptive statistics for country characteristics 70
4.2 Descriptive statistics for dataset with ten-year time periods 71
4.3 Panel data analysis with ten-year time periods 75
5.1 Applications of bellicist theory beyond early modern Europe 94
5.2 CSTS models of tax ratio on war and rivalry 101
5.3 ‘ Legacy’ models: average tax ratio post-1975 on the share of
years in war prior to 1913 and 1975 105
6.1 Summary of sovereign bargains 116
6.2 Summary of payoffs 118
6.3 Summary of main expectations 122
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Contributors
Jens Bartelson is Professor in Political Science. He received his doctorate
from the University of Stockholm in 1993. His fields of interest include
international political theory, the history of political thought, political
philosophy and social theory. Jens Bartelson has written mainly about
the concept of the sovereign state and the philosophy of world com-
munity. His work has appeared in journals such as International Studies
Quarterly, Political Theory, Review of International Studies, European
Journal of International Relations, European Journal of International Law
and International Political Sociology.
Annika Björkdahl is Professor of Political Science and Editor in Chief
of Cooperation and Conflict. Her research includes international and
local peace building with a particular focus on urban peace building,
and gender and transitional justice. She has published articles in journal
such as Millennium, Peace and Change, Human Rights Review, Journal of
European Public Policy, International Peacekeeping, Security Dialogue. She
is a leading expert on peace and conflict, small states and the role of ideas
and norms in international relations.
Charles Butcher is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department
of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science
and Technology. His research focuses on the onset and outcomes of violent
and non-violent resistance movements and historical state systems. His
work has been published in Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict
Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, International Interactions,
Comparative Political Studies, Review of International Studies and Third
World Quarterly.
Agustín Goenaga is a Research Fellow at the Department of Political
Science, Lund University, and the Swedish Royal Academy of Letters,
History and Antiquities. He has a Ph.D from the University of British
Columbia (UBC), which was funded by a Vanier Canada Graduate
Scholarship. His main research interests are in comparative political
economy comparative political development, democratic theory and
mixed-method research designs.
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