Warfare and State Formation – Comparing states, regions, and theoretical perspective

Conference arranged by Network of War Experiences (Krigserfaringer) and Center for Business and Politics, CBS.

The conference will explore different state formation processes in Europe and China. Moreover, the presenters will reflect upon the following matters:

- The relationship between warfare and state formation, state consolidation, and state decline

- The validity of the war making-state making thesis. To what extent is the thesis sustainable and to what extend do we need to add other explanations?

- How valid is warfare as an independent variable?

- What is the status of the warfare thesis? In what direction do we need to move in order to analyze state formation and state consolidation processes?

The programme:

 

Thursday September 28:

10:00 - Welcome

10:15 - Lars Bo Kaspersen, Copenhagen Business School/University of Copenhagen:

The Warfare paradigm in Historical Sociology: Problems and Prospects

11:15: Coffee

11:30 - Thomas Ertman, New York University: Warfare and State Formation in

Europe in the Early Modern Period.

13:00 – Lunch

14:00 - Gunnar Lind, University of Copenhagen: "Warfare, State Formation, and the Nature of the Elite in Early Modern Europe”.

15:30 – Coffee

15:45 – A general discussion

16:30 – Finish

 

Friday September 29:

09:30 - Jan Glete, University of Stockholm: Warfare and State Formation in

Sweden, Spain and the Dutch Republic in the early modern period

11:00 – Coffee

11:15 - Victoria Hui, University of Notre Dame: Warfare and State Formation in

China and Europe Compared.

12:45 – Lunch

13:30 – Dr. Dietrich Jung, Danish Institute for International Studies: Warfare, State Formation and the Decline of Empire: Reflexions on the Ottoman-Turkish Experience.

14:30 – Coffee

14:45 - General Discussion

15:30 – Goodbye!

 

Enrolment: Send an email to Lars Bo Kaspersen

lbk.cbp@cbs.dk or phone 38153590.  Deadline: September 22th!!! There is no fee for participating but enrolment is necessary. Lunch and coffee will be served.

List of speakers:

Thomas Ertman, New York University, Associate Professor

Ph.D. 1990, M.A. 1985, B.A. 1981, Harvard University Select Publications:

Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Barrington Moore Prize of the ASA 1998.

"Democracy and Dictatorship in Interwar Western Europe Revisited." World Politics, April 1998.

Taming the Leviathan: Building Democratic Nation-States in 19th and 20th Century Western Europe. (In Progress.)

Jan Glete, University of Stockholm, Professor

Professor of History, Stockholm University

Among his many publications are  Glete, J. (1994). "Bridge and bulwark: The Swedish navy and the Baltic, 1500-1809."’ In G. Rystad, et al. (eds) (1994). In quest of trade and security: The Baltic in power politics, 1500-1990: 1, 1500-1890, Lund: Lund UP.

Glete, J. (2000). Warfare at sea, 1500-1650: Maritime conflicts and the transformation of

Europe, London: Routledge.

Glete. J. (2002). War and the State in Early Modern Europe: Spain, the Dutch Republic andSweden as fiscal-military states, 1500-1650, London: Routledge.

Glete. J. (2003). "Naval Power and Control of the Sea in the Baltic in the Sixteenth century."In J. B. Hattendorf & R. W. Unger, War at Sea in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Woodbridge: Boydell. Glete, J. (forthcoming). "Amphibious warfare in the Baltic, 1550-1700", M. C. Fissel & D. J. B. Trim (eds), Amphibious warfare (premininary title), Leiden: Brill.

Victoria Hui, University of Notre Dame:

 (M.A. Columbia University, 1997, Ph.D. Columbia University 2000) Assistant Professor. Her research examines the dynamics of international politics, the origins of constitutional democracy, and the development of trade and capitalism in the broad sweeps of history, with a special focus on classical China and modern Europe. She has published War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe with Cambridge University Press (2005) which is the 2006 recipient of the Jervis-Schroeder award for best book in International History and Politics. She is currently working on “Development, Democracy, and the Two-tiered World: Lessons from the West on the Rest” and “Toward a Confucian-Kantian synthesis of the liberal peace.”

Dietrich Jung, Danish Institute for International Studies

(BA, MA, Ph.D., University of Hamburg, 1995), studies in Arabic languages. Senior  Research Fellow. His research concerns themes such as World Society, Historical Sociology, Modernization, Armed Conflict and Development, Religion and Politics. In recent years D. Jung has concentrated on International Relations, Islam, and conflict in the Middle East: an enquiry into the causes of Islamist radicalism, State formation and so-called new wars: the global political economy of contemporary armed conflicts, and the politics of democratization in modern Turkey. Among other books D.  Jung has authored, edited and co-authored:  Dietrich Jung (ed.): The Middle East and Palestine: Global Politics and Regional Conflict, New York: Palgrave (2004); Stefano Guzzini and Dietrich Jung (eds): Contemporary Security Analysis and Copenhagen Peace Research, with Stefano Guzzini, London and New York: Routledge (2004); Dietrich Jung (ed.): Shadow Globalization, Ethnic Conflicts, and New Wars: A Political Economy of Intra-State War, London and New York: Routledge (2003); Dietrich Jung, Klaus Schlichte und Jens Siegelberg: Kriege in der Weltgesellschaft. Strukturgeschichtliche Erklärung kriegerischer Gewalt (1945-2002), Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag (2003) and  Dietrich Jung with Wolfango Piccoli: Turkey at the Crossroads: Ottoman Legacies and a Greater Middle East, London: ZED books (2001).

Lars Bo Kaspersen, Copenhagen Business School/University of Copenhagen

(B.A. & M.A. Copenhagen, M.A. Sussex, Ph.D. University of Aarhus 1997). Current position. Profesor of Comparative Politics and Political Sociology, Copenhagen Business School. Among his publications can be mentioned: Formation of the Danish Welfare State: Decisions in the State of Exception. In John A. Hall, John Campell & Ove Kaj Pedersen, National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism. McGillUniversity Press, 2006, p. 99-132. The Origin, Development, Consolidation and Transformation of the Danish Welfare State. In Stein Kuhnle & Nanna Kildal (eds), The Normative Foundations of the Nordic Welfare States. Routledge, 2005, p. 52-72. “Er Danmark en stat?”, Kritik, 176-177, 2005, s. 25-31. Stat, suverænitet og statsreformer. (Stat, Sovereignty and State Forms). I Kaspersen L.B. & Mikkelsen, F. (eds), Historisk sociologi - Mødet mellem historien og samfundsvidenskaberne. Forlaget Sociologi, 2004, pp. 136-169. "How Denmark became democratic - The impact of Warfare and Military Reforms", Acta Sociology, vol. 47, No. 1, 2004.

Gunnar Lind, Professor of Early Modern History, Department of History, University of Copenhagen. Lind has published widely over the last 15 years. Among his publications can be mentioned: Being States and Making Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe: The Danish Kingdom and the Dutch Republic c. 1568-1632. Tijdschrift voor Skandinavistiek 27:1, 2006; Elites of the Danish Composite State, 1460-1864: Zones of fracture, mixing, and the struggle for hegemony. In: Zones of Fracture n Modern Europe: the Baltic Countries, the Balkans, and Northern Italy s. 111-136. In Almut Bues (ed.). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005. Great Friends and Small Friends. Clientelism and the Power Elite. In: Power Elites and State Building s. 123-147. Reinhard, Wolfgang. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1996.