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SUMMARY:'War outcome and state-building in Chile and Peru.' - Naim Bro Kho
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CONTACT:Kate Bruce-Lockhart
DESCRIPTION:This paper traces the divergent long-run institutional impacts
  of the Pacific War (1879-1883) in Chile and Peru. The analytical focus is
  on war outcome\, which is different from the bellicist theory’s focus o
 n preparation for war. Authors like Charles Tilly\, Michael Mann\, and oth
 ers have proposed that the emergence of the modern European state results 
 from the need to mobilise soldiers and resources for war in the Early Mode
 rn period. Students of Latin American state formation – Miguel Ángel Ce
 nteno\, Fernando López-Alves\, and others – question the general applic
 ability of the European model. Nineteenth-century Latin American states\, 
 they say\, were able to wage only limited wars\, due to their inability to
  mobilise soldiers and resources. Limited wars\, in turn\, eroded state ca
 pabilities. My contention is that students of state formation\, both in Eu
 rope and Latin America\, have restricted the focus of analysis on the prep
 aration of war\, and have neglected alternative mechanisms through which w
 ar triggers constructive institutional trajectories\, namely war outcomes.
  When successful war results in the access to new resources and to the inc
 reased legitimacy of the state\, these states are likely to expand and cre
 ate new institutions.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 3\, Alison Richards Building
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