Irregular Armed Forces and Their Role in Politics and State Formation

Abstract

1. Introduction: contemporary challenges and historical reflections on the study of militaries states and politics Diane E. Davis Part I. The Basic Framework and Beyond: Mobilization, Demobilization, and National State Formation: 2. Armed force, regimes, and contention in Europe since 1650 Charles Tilly 3. Limited war and limited states Miguel Centeno 4. Where do all the soldiers go?: veterans and the politics of demobilization Alec Campbell 5. Waging war and the transformation of property relationships: shaping the Japanese style of capitalism Eiko Ikegami Part II. Deconstructing 'Armed Forces': From Militaries to Militias, Paramilitaries, Police, and Veterans 6. Send a thief to catch a thief: state building and the employment of irregular formations in mid-nineteenth century Greece Achilles Batalas 7. Reform and reaction: paramilitary groups in contemporary Columbia Mauricio Romero 8. Policing the people, policing the state: the police-military nexus in Argentina, 1880-1945 Laura Kalmanowiecki 9. Warmaking and US state formation: mobilization, demobilization, and the inherent ambiguities of federalism Susan Browne 10. Politics is thicker than blood: union and confederate veterans in the US House of Representatives in the late nineteenth century Richard Bensel Part III. Not Just the Nation-State: Examining the Local, Regional, and International Nexus of Armed Force and State Formation: 11. The 'police municipale' and the making of the modern French state Lizabeth Zack 12. Domestic militarization in a transnational perspective: patriotic and militaristic youth mobilization in France and Indochina, 1940-5 Anne Raffin 13. The changing nature of warfare and the absence of state-building in west Africa William Reno 14. The ghost of Viet Nam: America confronts the new world disorder Ian Roxborough 15. Conclusion: Armed forces, coercive monopolies, and changing patterns of state formation and violence Anthony W. Pereira.