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The Paradoxical Nature of State Making: The Violent Creation of Order

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  • Cohen, Youssef
  • Brown, Brian R.
  • Organski, A. F. K.

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The central argument of this paper is developed as a criticism of a widely accepted interpretation of collective violence in new states. It is shown that instead of indicating political decay, violence in these states is an integral part of the process of accumulation of power by the national state. To the degree that this power accumulation is necessary for the imposition or maintenance of order, collective violence also indicates movement towards political order on a new scale. Admittedly, our evidence is far from definitive. Nevertheless, it consistently contradicts the interpretation of violence as political decay and supports our interpretation of violence as a usual feature of the process of primitive accumulation of power.

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  • Cohen, Youssef & Brown, Brian R. & Organski, A. F. K., 1981. "The Paradoxical Nature of State Making: The Violent Creation of Order," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 75(4), pages 901-910, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:75:y:1981:i:04:p:901-910_18
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