TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1981//
TI  - The paradoxical nature of state making: the violent creation of order
JO  - American political science review
A1  - Cohen, Youssef
A1  - Brown, Brian R.
A1  - Organski, A. F. K.
SP  - 901
EP  - 910
VL  - 75
IS  - 4
N2  - The central argument of this paper is developed as a criticism of a widely accepted interpretation of collective violence in new states. It is shown that instead of indicating political decay, violence in these states is an integral part of the process of accumulation of power by the national state. To the degree that this power accumulation is necessary for the imposition or maintenance of order, collective violence also indicates movement towards political order on a new scale. Admittedly, our evidence is far from definitive. Nevertheless, it consistently contradicts the interpretation of violence as political decay and supports our interpretation of violence as a usual feature of the process of primitive accumulation of power.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0003-0554
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1962291
ID  - ref1
ER  -