Bringing War Back In

Auteur

Luis L. Schenoni is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) and Director of the Security Studies Programme at the Department of Political Science, University College London. His work on war and the state has been published, among others, by the American Journal of Political Science.

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"This book offers new insights on how war made the state. It shows that wars can affect state-building trajectories long after they end and demonstrates that the relative capacity of Latin American states today can be traced back to nineteenth-century war outcomes"--

Contenu

Preface; Part I. Puzzle and Argument: 1. Overview; 2. Classical Bellicist Theory; 3. Blood and Debt in Europe and Latin America; Part II. Regionwide Analyses: 4. Preparation for War and Mobilization; 5. War Outcomes and State Building; 6. The State Capacity Ranking c.1900; Part III. Case Studies: 7. War and State in the River Plate; 8. War and State in the Pacific; 9. War and State in Mexico and Central America; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.