International Politics Club (Forum) Organizational meeting tonight at 8 pm Bernhard Center, main floor, near dining services entrance

Reminder Writing assignment I has been posted on class website (not WebCT) Due September 22nd in class

States Have internal and external sovereignty (authority over population in territory)

Tilly, Charles "War–Making and State-Making as Organized Crime,” in Bringing the State Back In, Eds. Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol. New York: Cambridge University Press.

States Have internal and external sovereignty (authority over population in territory) a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in the territory

Competing definitions of legitimacy: Assent of the people Probability other authorities will respect a given authority

Stop and think about approaches: State-making as institution building State-making as product of rulers’ interests (the logic of expanding power)