Did the study of state formation ever lose its religion? There’s a new wave of interest in the Catholic Church as an institutional formation.
Recentering the Catholic Church in European State Transformation
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Moving Beyond Tilly
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Michael Martoccio, who is a PhD candidate of Early Modern History with a minor specialization in IR Theory at Northwestern University. His research broadly...
“War Made the State and the State Made War”
A few unconnected recent happenings have reminded me that I've meant to do a short post on Charles Tilly, bellocentric (or "bellicist") theories of state formation, and where all of this stands in...
National Security and Civil Liberties meet Securitization and State Formation
Corey Robin's Jacobin essay is getting a lot of attention, including from Jon Western at the Duck and Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns & Money. I don't think that it detracts from Robin's essay to...