Revisiting Tilly’s Thesis: Is War Still Useful for State-making and State-consolidation?

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“War made the state, and the state made the war.”This powerful statement of
Charles Tilly’s, which is based on the history of European experiences, if it turns
out to be right in general, will lead us to believe war is a ‘necessary evil’for
human progress and that war in the Third World is a good thing in the long run
because it consolidates a state’s apparatuses necessary not only for keeping order
in a country but also for managing people’s lives efficiently in a society. In a
corollary of this logic, with regard to the failed states in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst argues that developing countries cannot accomplish in times of peace what war
enabled European countries to do. This argument seems to be counterintuitive if
we consider the devastating and tragic effects of war on human conditions during
the war and thereafter. Then, should we prefer war to peace or vice versa?
Through literature review including the recently added studies by Brian Downing,
Thomas Ertman, Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Miguel Angel Centeno, and Richard Boyd &
Tak-Wing Ngo, this essay concludes that there is no general rule that wars play
and will play the same positive role in state-making and state-consolidation in the
Third World countries including Asian, Latin American and African countries as
the past wars often did in Europe. Even the history of European experiences
should be further scrutinized.

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