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International Politics Club (Forum)

Join us for an organizational meeting tonight at 8 pm in Bernhard Center near the dining services entrance. Don't forget about the writing assignment on states' sovereignty due on September 22nd. Dive into Charles Tilly's perspectives on state-making and organized crime. Explore the meanings of legitimacy and state power dynamics. Reflect on different approaches to state-building processes. See you there!

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International Politics Club (Forum)

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  1. International Politics Club (Forum) • Organizational meeting tonight at 8 pmBernhard Center, main floor, near dining services entrance

  2. Reminder • Writing assignment I has been posted on class website (not WebCT) • Due September 22nd in class

  3. States Have internal and external sovereignty (authority over population in territory)

  4. Tilly, Charles. 1985. "War–Making and State-Making as Organized Crime,” in Bringing the State Back In, Eds. Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol. New York: Cambridge University Press.

  5. States • Have internal and external sovereignty (authority over population in territory) • a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in the territory

  6. Competing definitions of legitimacy: • Assent of the people • Probability other authorities will respect a given authority

  7. Stop and think about approaches: • State-making as institution building • State-making as product of rulers’ interests (the logic of expanding power)

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