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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Youssef Cohen ,
Brian R. Brown  and
A. F. K. Organski
Youssef Cohen
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
Brian R. Brown
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
A. F. K. Organski
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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Abstract

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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Research Article
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American Political Science Review , Volume 75 , Issue 4 , December 1981 , pp. 901 - 910
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1981

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