Irregular armed forces and their role in politics and state formation / edited by Diane E. Davis, Anthony W. Pereira.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Diane E., 1953- editor.

Pereira, Anthony W., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil-military relations.

Armed Forces--Political activity.

State, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 419 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Irregular Armed Forces & their Role in Politics & State Formation

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Existing models of state formation are derived primarily from early Western European experience, and are misleading when applied to nation-states struggling to consolidate their dominion in the present period. In this volume, scholars suggest that the Western European model of armies waging war on behalf of sovereign states does not hold universally. The importance of 'irregular' armed forces - militias, guerrillas, paramilitaries, mercenaries, bandits, vigilantes, police, and so on - has been seriously neglected in the literature on this subject. The case studies in this book suggest, among other things, that the creation of the nation-state as a secure political entity rests as much on 'irregular' as regular armed forces. For most of the 'developing' world, the state's legitimacy has been difficult to achieve, constantly eroding or challenged by irregular armed forces within a country's borders. No account of modern state formation can be considered complete without attending to irregular forces.

Contents:

Contemporary challenges and historical reflections on the study of militaries, states, and politics / Diane E. Davis

Armed force, regimes, and contention in Europe since 1650 / Charles Tilly

Limited war and limited states / Miguel Angel Centeno

Where do all the soldiers go? : veterans and the politics of demobilization / Alec Campbell

Military mobilization and the transformation of property relationships : wars that defined the Japanese style of capitalism / Eiko Ikegami

Send a thief to catch a thief : state-building and the employment of irregular military formations in mid-nineteenth-century Greece / Achilles Batalas.

Reform and reaction : paramilitary groups in contemporary Colombia / Mauricio Romero

Policing the people, building the state : the police-military nexus in Argentina, 1880-1945 / Laura Kalmanowiecki

War-making and U.S. state formation : mobilization, demobilization, and the inherent ambiguities of federalism / Susan M. Browne

Politics is thicker than blood : Union and Confederate veterans in the U.S. House of Representatives in the late nineteenth century / Richard Franklin Bensel

Police municipale and the formation of the French state / Lizabeth Zack

Domestic militarization in a transnational perspective : patriotic and militaristic youth mobilization in France and Indochina, 1940-1945 / Anne Raffin

Changing nature of warfare and the absence of state-building in West Africa / William Reno

Ghost of Vietnam : America confronts the new world disorder / Ian Roxborough

Armed forces, coercive monopolies, and changing patterns of state formation and violence / Anthony W. Pereira.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13303-3

1-280-41966-0

1-139-14801-X

0-511-18065-9

0-511-06465-9

0-511-05832-2

0-511-33103-7

0-511-51003-9

0-511-07311-9

OCLC:

171121057