POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Standing Army
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Readings: tilly, charles war making, http://www. theatlantic. com/magazine/archive/2001/05/ayn-rand-comes-to- somalia/302209, http://www. petermaass. com/articles/court_martial/ We see the world through weberian states because it"s more orderly unlike terrorist groups (isis) The idea of a state is recent not perennial (which means timeless) Then: ivanhoe clip loyalties are personal to a specific person. For example you wouldn"t say i"m the frenchman isaac, you would say i am isaac of york . Now: obama ceremony clip supreme justice of supreme court makes obama swear to the. State not a person but the state as a whole. There is a transfer of power bureaucratically not traditionally like before. Tilly asks how these weberian states came to be. States = rackets means they sell protection. They create problems and at the same time provide solutions for those problems. I threaten your person and at the same time i offer a solution to that threat .
