POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Monopoly Profit, Jeffersonian Democracy, Indirect Rule
29 Jan 2018
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Reading journal 2: war making and state making as organized crime by charles tilly. In the reading by charles tilly, named war making and state making as organized crime , the observed thesis shows that classic examples of organized crime are seen in war making and state making. He proves this by showing the formation of early european states and how they employed different types of protection and force in order to build their state. Early european states declared violence a right. Illegitimate force began to distinguish did they start using permanent, unified armies. They even started employing police armies that were under government rule and could keep order locally. Governments, in order to form, were focused on gaining capital by controlling violence to favor monopolies. In france, for example, richelieu began the great disarmament of the 1620s by destroying castles of rebel lords. He began declaring the royal monopoly of force as doctrine.
