Irregular Armed Forces, Shifting Patterns of Commitment, and Fragmented Sovereignty in the Developing World

Historically, the study of state formation has involved a focus on the urban and national conditions under which states monopolize the means of coercion, generate legitimacy, and marshal sufficient economic resources to wage war against enemies while sustaining citizen allegiance through the extensi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Diane E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer Netherlands 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51817