Kaspersen Lars Bo - Does War Make States?

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Names: Kaspersen, Lars Bo, 1961 editor. | Strandsbjerg, Jeppe, 1973 editor.

Title: Does war make states? : investigations of Charles Tillys historical sociology / edited by Lars Bo Kaspersen and Jeppe Strandsbjerg.

Description: 1 Edition. | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016011210 | ISBN 9781107141506 (Hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: War and society. | State, The. | Tilly, CharlesPolitical and social views.

Classification: LCC HM554 .D64 2016 | DDC 303.6/6dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016011210

Benno Teschke, University of Sussex

Thomas Ertman, New York University

Hendrik Spruyt, Northwestern University

Philip Gorski, Yale university and Vivek Swaroop Sharma, Pomona College

Jeppe Strandsbjerg, Copenhagen Business School

Peter Haldn, Swedish Defence University

Vivek Swaroop Sharma, Pomona College

Dietrich Jung, University of Southern Denmark

Robert H. Holden, Old Dominion University

Victoria Tin-bor Hui, University of Notre Dame

Thomas Ertman (b. 1959) is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the College Core Curriculum at New York University. He received his BA in Philosophy and PhD in Sociology from Harvard University, where he was also a faculty member in the Department of Government for ten years. He is author of Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe and editor of Max Webers Economic Ethos of the World Religions: An Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Philip Gorski (b. 1963) is Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at Yale University. He received his BA from Harvard (1986) and his PhD from Berkeley (1996). His early work focuses on the political development of early modern Europe with special attention to the impact of the Reformation. He recently completed a book on American civil religion, which is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

Peter Haldn (b. 1977) completed his undergraduate education in Berlin and Stockholm, and he received his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence in 2006. He is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University (SDU) in Stockholm. His research interests include social theory, state formation, Eurasian history, international politics, and the political use of armed force. At the SDU he teaches courses in military strategy and the political use of military force. Haldns recent publications include the monograph Stability without Statehood (Palgrave, 2011); the articles Reconceptualising state-formation as collective power ( Journal of Political Power , 2014), A non-sovereign modernity. Attempts to engineer stability in the Balkans 18201890 ( Review of International Studies , 2013); and the co-edited volume New Agenda for Statebuilding (Routledge, 2013).

Robert H. Holden (b. 1947) holds his PhD (history) from the University of Chicago. He has been Professor of Latin American History at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia) since 1993. Holdens research interests include state formation, violence, rule of law and legitimacy. His publications include Armies without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 18211960 (Oxford University Press, 2004), Contemporary Latin America: 1970 to the Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), and forthcoming essays, Violence, the State and Revolution in Latin America for the Cambridge World History of Violence (vol. 4) and Borderlands and Public Violence in a Shadow Polity: Costa Ricans, Nicaraguans and the Legacy of the Central American Federation for Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America , eds. Sebastian Huhn and Hannes Warnecke (Palgrave Macmillan). Holdens principal teaching interests include Spain in America, Latin American independence, political order, religion and the state, social revolution, democratization and economic development.

Victoria Tin-bor Hui (b. 1967) is an associate professor in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She received her PhD in Political Science from Columbia University and her BSSc from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Huis research examines the centrality of war in the formation and transformation of China through the whole span of Chinese history. She is the author of War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2005). She has published the articles Toward a Dynamic Theory of International Politics ( International Organization ), The Emergence and Demise of Nascent Constitutional Rights ( Journal of Political Philosophy) , History and Thought in Chinas Traditions ( Journal of Chinese Political Science) , Building Castles in the Sand ( Chinese Journal of International Politics) , and book chapters The China Dream: Revival of What Historical Greatness?, The Triumph of Domination in the Ancient Chinese System and Problematizing Sovereignty. As a native from Hong Kong, Hui also analyses Hong Kong politics. She maintains a blog on the Umbrella Movement (https://victoriatbhui.wordpress.com) and has published the article Hong Kongs Umbrella Movement: The Protest and Beyond ( Journal of Democracy ). Hui teaches courses on the state and contentious politics.