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ABOUT THE BOOK

State making has long been regarded as a European development, both historically and geographically. In this innovative book, the authors add fresh insights into the nature and causes of state making by de-centering this Eurocentric viewpoint through simultaneous changes of conceptual, theoretical and empirical focus.
De-Centering State Making combines knowledge from comparative politics and international relations, creating a more holistic perspective that moves away from the widespread idea that state making and war are intrinsically linked. The book uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine historical and contemporary cases of state making as well as non-European ones, providing an in-depth analysis of the nature and causes of state making, historically as well as in a modern, global environment.
This timely book is an invaluable read for international relations and comparative politics scholars. It will also greatly benefit those teaching advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on state making as it provides a fresh take on the art of state making in a modern world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction: De-Centering State Making
Jens Bartelson, Martin Hall and Jan Teorell

Part I: What makes a state?
2. Steppe State Making
Martin Hall

3. De-Centering Federal Origins: India and the Contested Appropriation of Federal Democracy
Ted Svensson

4. The Current Developing State
Jonathan K. Hanson

Part II: What states does war make?
5. When Does War Make States? War, Rivalries and Fiscal Extraction in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Agustín Goenaga and Alexander von Hagen-Jamar

6. War and Variation in the Structure of Historical International Systems: A Theoretical Model
Charles Butcher and Ryan Griffiths

7. Imagined States and Clashing State-building Processes in the Bosnian Space
Annika Björkdahl

Part III: State making and international society
8. Configurations of Semi-Sovereignty in the Long-Nineteenth Century
Arthur Learoyd

9. Acting Like a State: Non-European Membership of International Organisations in the Nineteenth Century
Ellen Ravndal

Part IV: Conclusion
10. Concentric Circles: Aporias of De-Centering State Making in Time and Space
Janis Grzybowski

11. After De-Centering: A New Research Agenda for State Making
Jens Bartelson and Jan Teorell

Index