Editing Tilly 1985 (section)

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'''''Introduction''''' 
*Building upon Weberian definition of the state
: I.e. The state as an organization that holds the monopoly of legitimate violence over a given geographic territory 
*Analogizes the '''creation of modern nation-states''' with '''organized crime''' in the form of a '''protection racket''' that operates with the authority of '''legitimacy'''. 
**Those responsible for war-making and state-making are compared to manipulative entrepreneurs who use coercive violence for self-seeking purposes
*As opposed to:
:: States as a social contract under which the authorities of states and military offer services to the population through an open market
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'''''Purpose'''''  
*Attempting to address contemporary concerns regarding the looming presence of military organization and action throughout the world including:
**The increasing destructiveness of war
**The expanding role of great powers suppliers of arms and military organization to poor countries
**The growing importance of military rule in those same countries
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'''''The Nation-State'''''  
*Characteristics of the modern nation-state
**Rule over a population inhabiting a large, contiguous territory 
**Relatively centralized
**Contains differentiated organizations
**Officials successfully monopolize the means of violence
*Primary example utilized: creation of sixteenth/seventeenth century Western European national states 
**E.g. Specifically France’s growth from 1600 onward
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'''''Theoretical Framework'''''  
*Comparing premodern western Europe’s formation of nation-states and the present day third world
**Using the example of European experience to better understand and address modern issues
*Caveat
**Third-world countries and premodern Europe do not strongly resemble one another 
**Europe’s past cannot predict the future of third-world countries
*Still, we can apply analyses of Europe in comparison to the third world specifically in terms of:
**Theoretical framework: <br>
:: '''Coercive exploitation by state/war-makers → popular resistance → implementation of protection and constraints on the state’s own violence by the state itself'''
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'''''Subject of the essay'''''  
*Organized means of violence → growth and change in forms of government → modern nation-state
**I.e. '''Interdependent processes: War-making ↔ state-making'''
***Also, during the initial conception and rise of nation-states in Western countries: <br>
::: State-making ↔ mercantile capitalism
*'''Argument: War makes states'''
**Analogy between '''state-making and war-making''' and '''organized crime''' (i.e. protection rackets)
***Difference: States operate with the advantage of '''legitimacy''' 
***Organized crime: less successful and smaller-scale version of war-making and state-making processes
***All on the same continuum: Banditry, piracy, gangland rivalry, policing, war-making
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