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De-Centering State Making De-Centering State Making Comparative and International Perspectives Edited by Jens Bartelson Martin Hall Jan Teorell Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA © Jens Bartelson, Martin Hall and Jan Teorell 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited The Lypiatts 15 Lansdown Road Cheltenham Glos GL50 2JA UK Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. William Pratt House 9 Dewey Court Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2018931758 This book is available electronically in the Social and Political Science subject collection DOI 10.4337/9781788112994 ISBN 978 1 78811 298 7 (cased) ISBN 978 1 78811 299 4 (eBook) Typeset by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire Contents List of figures vii List of tables viii List of contributors ix Acknowledgments xii 1 Introduction: de-centering state making 1 Jens Bartelson, Martin Hall and Jan Teorell PART I WHAT MAKES A STATE? 2 Steppe state making 17 Martin Hall 3 De-centering federal origins: India and the contested appropriation of federal democracy 38 Ted Svensson 4 The current developing state 59 Jonathan K. Hanson PART II WHAT STATES DOES WAR MAKE? 5 When does war make states? War, rivalries and fiscal extraction in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 85 Agustín Goenaga and Alexander von Hagen-Jamar 6 War and variation in the structure of historical international systems: a theoretical model 112 Charles Butcher and Ryan Griffiths 7 Imagined states and clashing state-building processes in the Bosnian space 131 Annika Björkdahl v vi De-centering state making PART III STATE MAKING AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY 8 Configurations of semi-sovereignty in the long nineteenth century 155 Arthur Learoyd 9 Acting like a state: non-European membership of international organizations in the nineteenth century 175 Ellen Ravndal PART IV CONCLUSION 10 Concentric circles: aporias of de-centering state making in time and space 199 Janis Grzybowski 11 After de-centering: a new research agenda for state making 218 Jens Bartelson and Jan Teorell Index 233 Figures 4.1 Evolution of Capacity in four countries 69 4.2 Evolution of mean Capacity by region 70 4.3 Change in Capacity and ethnic fractionalization 73 4.4 Change in Capacity and Polity Index 73 4.5 Change in Capacity and net aid transfers 74 5.1 Evolution of tax ratio and war 99 5.2 Evolution of tax ratio and war (cont.) 100 5.3 Evolution of tax ratio and war in Japan 101 5.4 Coefficients for war and tax ratio by country 102 5.5 Coefficients for rivalry on tax ratio by country 103 8.1 Four logics in interaction 167 9.1 IO memberships per country, 1906 179 9.2 Y ear of entry of non-European states and colonies in the UPU (left) and the ITU (right), 1865–1915 183 vii Tables 2.1 Theories of steppe state making 22 4.1 Descriptive statistics for country characteristics 70 4.2 Descriptive statistics for dataset with ten-year time periods 71 4.3 Panel data analysis with ten-year time periods 75 5.1 Applications of bellicist theory beyond early modern Europe 94 5.2 CSTS models of tax ratio on war and rivalry 101 5.3 ‘ Legacy’ models: average tax ratio post-1975 on the share of years in war prior to 1913 and 1975 105 6.1 Summary of sovereign bargains 116 6.2 Summary of payoffs 118 6.3 Summary of main expectations 122 viii Contributors Jens Bartelson is Professor in Political Science. He received his doctorate from the University of Stockholm in 1993. His fields of interest include international political theory, the history of political thought, political philosophy and social theory. Jens Bartelson has written mainly about the concept of the sovereign state and the philosophy of world com- munity. His work has appeared in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Political Theory, Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, European Journal of International Law and International Political Sociology. Annika Björkdahl is Professor of Political Science and Editor in Chief of Cooperation and Conflict. Her research includes international and local peace building with a particular focus on urban peace building, and gender and transitional justice. She has published articles in journal such as Millennium, Peace and Change, Human Rights Review, Journal of European Public Policy, International Peacekeeping, Security Dialogue. She is a leading expert on peace and conflict, small states and the role of ideas and norms in international relations. Charles Butcher is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on the onset and outcomes of violent and non-violent resistance movements and historical state systems. His work has been published in Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, International Interactions, Comparative Political Studies, Review of International Studies and Third World Quarterly. Agustín Goenaga is a Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, and the Swedish Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. He has a Ph.D from the University of British Columbia (UBC), which was funded by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. His main research interests are in comparative political economy comparative political development, democratic theory and mixed-method research designs. ix
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