From Warfare to Wealth

Dincecco, Mark; Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano

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“…Huang and Kang 2021 Onorato find that, in Africa, warfare gave rise to "special-interest states" with high fiscal capacity and high levels of internal conflict. 119 Moreover, in today's world, peaceful interventions by international actors, rather than interstate war, dominate the external dimension of state building. 120 This could of course change, but Russia's struggle to make territorial gains in Ukraine following its invasion in February 2022 reminds us that international norms and nationalism make largescale conquest very difficult.…”

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War Did Make States: Revisiting the Bellicist Paradigm in Early Modern Europe

Cederman

Toro²,

Girardin³

et al. 2023

Int Org

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Charles Tilly's classical claim that “war made states” in early modern Europe remains controversial. The “bellicist” paradigm has attracted theoretical criticism both within and beyond its original domain of applicability. While several recent studies have analyzed the internal aspects of Tilly's theory, there have been very few systematic attempts to assess its logic with regard to the territorial expansion of states. In this paper, we test this key aspect of bellicist theory directly by aligning historical data on European state borders with conflict data, focusing on the period from 1490 through 1790. Proceeding at the systemic, state, and dyadic levels, our analysis confirms that warfare did in fact play a crucial role in the territorial expansion of European states before (and beyond) the French Revolution.

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War Did Make States: Revisiting the Bellicist Paradigm in Early Modern Europe

Cederman

Toro²,

Girardin³

et al. 2023

Int Org

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“…Similarly, while long-term public debt could foster new public and private investments, the problem of credible commitment first needed to be resolved (Stasavage 2011). Finally, while rural–urban migration could promote economic agglomeration effects and technological innovations, individuals in a traditional agricultural economy first needed to be willing to accept the costs of relocation (Dincecco and Onorato 2017). In each case, the historical evidence indicates that external security pressures and interstate military competition helped to induce premodern European society to undertake such major changes.…”

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New Perspectives on State Formation

Dincecco

2023

Perspect. polit.

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Governments in developed nations today collect high tax revenues and spend vast amounts on security, regulation, infrastructure, and social programs. Yet developed nations were in no way born with effective state institutions. What explains the emergence of the modern state? And, why did capable states first form historically in Western Europe? Proper answers to these questions are key to our understanding of modern forms of governance, including parliamentary democracy.

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“…For this we used two sources:-Dincecco and Onorato (2017) and the Geacron Project. 3 The latter is an educational Web site, produced in association with the University Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid, designed to provide students with geotemporal maps and configuration timelines of world history, similar to the Centenia World Historical Atlas used by Dincecco and Onorato (2017) to create shapefiles of past historical polities. Geacron has geocoded 3000 historical battles from a broad spatio-temporal range.…”

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Conflict Events Worldwide Since 1468BC: Introducing the Historical Conflict Event Dataset

Miller

Bakar

2022

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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Quantitative datasets of international conflict skew temporally to modern times and geographically and culturally to the West. Yet post–1815 conflicts featuring Western actors are only a small part of the history of warfare. Many scholars have bemoaned the potential selection bias which this introduces to studies of the causes and effects of military conflict, but as yet quantitative datasets which remedy both these temporal and geographic shortcomings have been lacking. Some datasets have expanded the scope of existing offerings temporally and others spatially, while others have attempted to expand both but with an important lack of detail in terms of location, participants, timing and outcomes. This dataset sets out to remedy the deficit. Using military history’s most extensive encyclopedia of conflict events, we have created a dataset of conflict events spanning the globe and a timescale from 1468BC to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, complete with precise geographic coordinates, year, participants and outcome. We demonstrate the promise of this data-set by using it to assess the frequently asserted relationship between conflict history and economic development, combined with Nordhaus’ GECON sub–national wealth data and historical data on population density from the Netherlands Environmental Agency.

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From Warfare to Wealth

Cited by 51 publications

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War Did Make States: Revisiting the Bellicist Paradigm in Early Modern Europe

War Did Make States: Revisiting the Bellicist Paradigm in Early Modern Europe

New Perspectives on State Formation

Conflict Events Worldwide Since 1468BC: Introducing the Historical Conflict Event Dataset

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