POLS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jared Diamond, Ruhollah Khomeini, Haile Selassie
17 Jan 2018
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Week 1: states and state formation (january 11, 13 and 16) O"neil, states, chapter 2 in essentials of comparative politics. Charles tilly, how war made states, and vice versa chapter 3 in coercion, capital, and european. States, ad 990-1990 (cambridge ma: basil blackwell, 1990) Implicit in these issues is the question of whether one form of political system is superior to another or how different political systems produce different outcomes for their citizens. Why is it so hard to rebuild in afghanistan or iraq: trade-offs that everyone deals with, what you are willing to give up to get something else in return. Since the dawn of humanity, people relied on some form of political organization for the past few countries, modern states have been the dominant expression of that relation. We might thus conclude that states now represent an end point in human intellectual and organizational evolution. (o"neil: people always wanting to organizing themselves, there are different kinds of states.
