Macro · Structures & Institutions Stub 1985

War Making and State Making as Coercive Extraction

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A macro-historical sociological theory positing that modern national states evolved not through peaceful social contracts, but as protection rackets where external warmaking forced rulers to centralize extraction and build bureaucracies.

Field History · Political Science · Sociology
Level of analysis Macro · Structures & Institutions
Paradigm Conflict Theory Institutionalism
Key figures 👤 Charles Tilly (찰스 틸리)
Year 1985

Key Claims

Charles Tilly famously conceptualized European state formation as organized crime and protection rackets. Rulers engaging in warmaking were compelled to develop centralized fiscal machinery, permanent bureaucracies, and institutional bargaining with domestic elites to extract war revenues.

Further Reading

  • Tilly, C. (1985). War making and state making as organized crime. In P. B. Evans, D. Rueschemeyer, & T. Skocpol (Eds.), Bringing the State Back In (pp. 169–191). Cambridge University Press.
  • Tilly, C. (1990). Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1990. Blackwell.

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