{"id":39,"date":"2017-09-14T13:37:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-plattsburgh-anthro\/?post_type=chapter&p=39"},"modified":"2017-10-03T14:47:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T14:47:34","slug":"readings-and-resources-on-the-nation-state","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-plattsburgh-anthro\/chapter\/readings-and-resources-on-the-nation-state\/","title":{"raw":"Readings and Resources on the Nation-State","rendered":"Readings and Resources on the Nation-State"},"content":{"raw":"The nation\u2013state, along with the consumer, laborer, and capitalist comprise, we suggest, the essential elements of the culture of capitalism. It is the nation\u2013state that guarantees the ownership of private property and the means of production and provides support for disciplining the work force. The state also has to provide and maintain the economic infrastructure\u2014transportation, communication, judicial systems, education, and so on\u2014required by capitalist production. The nation\u2013state must regulate conflicts between competing capitalists at home and abroad, by diplomacy if possible, by war if necessary. The state plays an essential role in creating conditions that inhibit or promote consumption, controls legislation that may force people off the land to seek wage labor, legislates to regulate or deregulate corporations, controls the money supply, initiates economic, political, and social policies to attract capital, and controls the legitimate use of force. Without the nation\u2013state to regulate commerce and trade within its own borders, there could be no effective global economic integration. But how did the nation\u2013state come to exist, and how does it succeed in binding together often disparate and conflicting groups?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Those are the questions addressed in the following selections\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nA. The Role of the Nation-State in the Culture of Capitalism<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe nation-state is the political pillar of the culture of capitalism. Virtually everyone in the world considers herself or himself a member of one nation-state or another, in spite of the fact that few nation-states are more than fifty years old.\u00a0\u00a0 The question addressed in the readings in this section are, how and why did the nation-state come to assume such importance in the culture of capitalism, and, what specifically is the relationship between the nation-state and the capitalist?\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\nReading 1.\u00a0States? Sovereignty? The Dilemmas of Capitalists in an Age of Transition\r\nhttp:\/\/www.webalice.it\/michele.castellano\/politica\/Note\/Wallerstein\/States%20Sovereignty%20The%20Dilemmas%20of%20Capitalists%20in%20an%20Age%20of%20Transition.pdf<\/a>\r\n\r\nThis is not an easy reading to begin this section, but this keynote address by Immanuel Wallerstein at a conference on \"State and Sovereignty in the World Economy\" provides a remarkably comprehensive description of the role of the nation-state in the culture of capitalism.\u00a0 It also complements nicely the discussion of the nation-state in\u00a0Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism.\u00a0 The views expressed by Wallerstein are not shared by all social scientists and historians, but they are persuasive and provocative. In this address he focuses on two key questions about the origin, nature and role of the nation-state: first, in what ways are capitalists dependent on the nation-state for their accumulation of wealth. and, second, since the nation-state operates primarily in the service of capitalists, how does it maintain its sovereignty, that is its control, over everyone else? The nation-state, Wallerstein argues, serves the needs of capitalists in a number of ways. For example, it guarantees property rights and protects capital from theft, confiscation, and excessive taxation. It also protects capitalists from a \"free market,\" that is one that allows for the easy entrance of competitors. It also subsidizes the capitalist by, among other things, assuming part of the cost of production (e.g. building and maintaining communication systems, education systems, judiciary systems, etc.), and protecting capitalists from paying for damages they do to the property of others (damages to the environment, to people's health, etc.) But why, asks Wallerstein, when capitalists receive most of the benefits of the actions of nation-states, do these states maintain their power and legitimacy? Part of the answer lies with the ideology of \"liberalism,\" whose history Wallerstein describes. But, as you will see, maintaining sovereignty in an era of globalization is no easy thing; in fact, says Wallerstein, the legitimacy of nation-states are presently being questioned as never before. Furthermore, he says, \"The sovereignty of states--their inward and outward sovereignty within the framework of an interstate system--is a fundamental pillar of the capitalist world economy. If it fails, or seriously declines, capitalism is untenable as a system.\"\r\n\r\nReading 2.\u00a0Nations and Nationalism: The Nationalism Project\r\nhttp:\/\/www.nationalismproject.org\/<\/a>\r\n\r\nErnest Gellner's book, Nations and Nationalism, \u00a0contrasts the needs of agrarian societies (which he calls \"Agraria\") with those of industrial societies, and concludes that the modern state developed to meet the needs of industrial society. Gellner proposes that the nation-state exists primarily because of the need of industrial societies for economic integration and cultural homogeneity; furthermore, he says, the medium through which this integration and homogenization is accomplished is through education.\u00a0 As Gellner said, instead of using a monopoly on force to accomplish integration, the modern state uses its monopoly on education.\u00a0 Gellner\u2019s work and that of others who research nations and nationalism can be found on the site of the Nationalism Project.\r\n\r\nReading 3.\u00a0From Miracle to Crash\r\n<\/a>http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v20\/n08\/ande02_.html<\/a>\r\n\r\nIn this article, Benedict Anderson explains the political and economic forces that were behind the rapid and dramatic economic rise of Southeast Asian countries in the 1970s and 80s, and their subsequent collapses in 1997.\u00a0 This is another fairly lengthy article, but it is valuable for a number of reasons.\u00a0 First, the article is a superb case study of the interplay between economics and politics, the capitalist and the nation-state, in the modern world.\u00a0 Second, it describes in some depth the role of ethnic groups (in this case the Chinese) in nation-states. Third, the article provides a particularly good summary of the economic and political development in Indonesia, one that complements the discussion in Chapter Three of\u00a0Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism.\u00a0 Finally, it provides a sometimes chilling description of how powerful nation-states can use that power to control the economic, political, and social affairs of weaker nation-states.\r\n\r\nReading 4.\u00a0The Chile Coup: The U.S. Hand<\/a>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/1990s\/consor33.html<\/a>\r\n\r\nOne of the functions of the nation-state in the culture of capitalism is to guarantee the assets of capitalists, particularly their rights to private property.\u00a0 However, what happens when that property is held in other countries?\u00a0 If the nation-state is powerful enough, it can use its resources and\/or military to intervene. \u00a0 The United States in the last half-century has intervened to help overthrow democratically elected governments in Iran, Guatemala, and Chile among others when those governments threatened the overseas investments of American or multinational concerns. \u00a0 The case of Chile is relevant today because of the October 1998 arrest in England of Augusto Pinochet , the general who assumed power after the American sponsored overthrow of Salvador Allende.\u00a0 This article by Peter Kornbluh that appeared in\u00a0The Consortium\u00a0 was based on recently released government documents, and details the process through which a powerful capitalist nation-state can intervene in the workings of a less powerful state when it believes that the best interests of its capitalists are not being served\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nB. The Relationship Between Ethnic Groups and the Nation-State<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe major defining characteristic of nation-states is a shared language and culture.\u00a0 In fact, one of the major tasks of any nation-state is to at least convince its citizens that they share a common culture.\u00a0 The problem is that few nation-states meet that criteria.\u00a0 The question is, what is the consequence of the fact that nation-states are not culturally homogenous, and what actions can be taken by these states to address this situation.\r\n\r\nReading 5.\u00a0Death by Government\u00a0(a selection)\r\nhttp:\/\/www2.hawaii.edu\/~rummel\/DBG.CHAP1.HTM<\/a>\r\n\r\nThis is the first chapter of Rudolph Rummel's book, Death by Government.\u00a0 In this book, which is one of a series he has done on the same topic, Rummel documents the number of citizens that have been killed by their own governments.\u00a0 Rummel's basic thesis is that the more totalitarian the government, the more likely they are to torture and murder.\u00a0 Democratic governments, he argues, do kill, but nowhere on the scale of authoritarian or totalitarian states.\u00a0 Yet, as he makes clear, nation-states, with their alleged monopoly on the use of force, tend to be by far the greatest source of murder and mayhem.\u00a0 For example, review his statistics on the number of citizens killed by the\u00a0major megamurderers of the 20th Century<\/a>\r\n\r\nReading 6.\u00a0The Wannasee Protocol\r\nhttps:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160330073707\/https:\/\/fcit.usf.edu\/holocaust\/resource\/document\/DocWanns.htm<\/a>\u00a0 and http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/the-wannsee-protocol<\/a>\r\n\r\nThis is perhaps the most horrifying document of the Jewish \u00a0 Holocaust.\u00a0\u00a0 It is on the Internet at the\u00a0Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust,<\/a>\u00a0a collection of primary documents that include excerpts from the writings of Hitler and Himmler, Nazi decrees against the Jews, Nazi descriptions of the concentration camps and the gassing of prisoners, and the opening address at the Nuremberg Trials. The Wannasee protocol\u00a0 describes the steps to be taken to eliminate Jews. \u00a0 It is one of the primary documents of the Nazi's Final Solution\r\n\r\nReading 7.\u00a0About Lynching\r\nhttp:\/\/www.english.uiuc.edu\/maps\/poets\/g_l\/lynching\/lynching.htm<\/a>\r\n\r\nWe tend to associate terrorism with small groups of people who use violence to achive their aims.\u00a0 But there is also state terrorism where the state uses violence to control portions of the population, or allows extra-state groups to use violence with no fear of being prosecuted.\u00a0 Lynching in the United States provides a good example of such violence.\u00a0 Black Americans were the major victims of lynching, as these brief articles describe.\u00a0 Virtually no one was ever prosecuted for participating in a lynching, and participants and perpetrators even had their photographs taken at lynchings and made into\u00a0postcards (see http:\/\/withoutsanctuary.org\/main.html<\/a>) \u00a0\u00a0 To get the feeling of the mood at a lyching, read the lyrics to\u00a0Strange Fruit<\/a>, popularized by singer Billie Holiday.\u00a0 Photographs of lynching victims follow the main reading.\r\n\r\nExercise 1.\u00a0\u00a0Present Global Conflicts\r\nhttps:\/\/www.cfr.org\/interactives\/global-conflict-tracker#!\/global-conflict-tracker<\/a>\r\n\r\nThis map at the\u00a0Council on Foreign Relations details most (but not all) of the current intra-state conflicts in the world.\u00a0 The existence of these conflicts tends to confirm Rudolph Rummel's point that most deadly quarrels are between nation-states and their own citizens.\u00a0 Each of the specified conflicts is a link that will take you to additional resources on the conflict.\u00a0 Simply browse through the sites, and see if you can detect some features that all or most of the conflicts have in common\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nC. The Future of the Nation-State<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThere is some thought that the future of the nation-state is insecure.\u00a0 Some point to the increase in migration in the world, others to the rise of the transnational corporations, yet others to the increasing importance of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in delivering services to people.\u00a0 The following readings each address that idea, although each concludes, that while the nation-state may change, its importance to the culture of capitalism is too great for it to disappear.\r\n\r\nReading 8.\u00a0\u00a0Maps Myths and Migrants\r\nhttps:\/\/newint.org\/features\/1998\/09\/05\/keynote<\/a>\r\n\r\nGlobalization has dissolved national boundaries as more and more people migrate in search of employment.\u00a0 As Anouk Ride points out in this article from\u00a0New Internationalist, almost everyone has to sell something to survive, and often the only thing they have to sell is their labor.\u00a0 But as boundaries dissolve, borders, as Richard Kearney has explained, have been reinforced.\u00a0 That is as more and more people migrate from poor countries to rich countries in search of work, governments in rich countries have been urged by their citizens to strengthen borders to prevent immigration. \u00a0 To some, immigrants pose a threat to the economy, to the social fabric of the country, even, some argue, to the environment.\u00a0 But migrants, as Ride explains, contribute far more to national economies than they receive, a fact explainable, in part, because they are willing to work for far less than citizens\r\n\r\nReading 9.\u00a0War and Peace\r\nhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/saturday_review\/story\/0,3605,655478,00.html<\/a>\r\n\r\nNation-states claim to have a monopoly on the use of armed force, a monopoly that they use with disturbing frequency.\u00a0 In this article, distinguished historian Eric Hobsbawm examines the history of war in the 20th century and tries to project what sort of wars will be fought in the 21st century\r\n\r\nReading 10.\u00a0Bases, Empire and Global Response\r\nhttps:\/\/nyupress.org\/webchapters\/lutz_intro.pdf<\/a>\r\n\r\nCatherine Lutz documents the spread of U.S. militarism in which over a quarter of a million troops are stationed in some 737 bases spread around 130 countries.\u00a0 She examines the impacts of these facilities in the countries in which they are situated and explores also the meaning of this unprecedented military expansion and how it is stimulating protest\r\n\r\n ","rendered":"

The nation\u2013state, along with the consumer, laborer, and capitalist comprise, we suggest, the essential elements of the culture of capitalism. It is the nation\u2013state that guarantees the ownership of private property and the means of production and provides support for disciplining the work force. The state also has to provide and maintain the economic infrastructure\u2014transportation, communication, judicial systems, education, and so on\u2014required by capitalist production. The nation\u2013state must regulate conflicts between competing capitalists at home and abroad, by diplomacy if possible, by war if necessary. The state plays an essential role in creating conditions that inhibit or promote consumption, controls legislation that may force people off the land to seek wage labor, legislates to regulate or deregulate corporations, controls the money supply, initiates economic, political, and social policies to attract capital, and controls the legitimate use of force. Without the nation\u2013state to regulate commerce and trade within its own borders, there could be no effective global economic integration. But how did the nation\u2013state come to exist, and how does it succeed in binding together often disparate and conflicting groups?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Those are the questions addressed in the following selections<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A. The Role of the Nation-State in the Culture of Capitalism<\/strong><\/p>\n

The nation-state is the political pillar of the culture of capitalism. Virtually everyone in the world considers herself or himself a member of one nation-state or another, in spite of the fact that few nation-states are more than fifty years old.\u00a0\u00a0 The question addressed in the readings in this section are, how and why did the nation-state come to assume such importance in the culture of capitalism, and, what specifically is the relationship between the nation-state and the capitalist?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading 1.\u00a0States? Sovereignty? The Dilemmas of Capitalists in an Age of Transition
\nhttp:\/\/www.webalice.it\/michele.castellano\/politica\/Note\/Wallerstein\/States%20Sovereignty%20The%20Dilemmas%20of%20Capitalists%20in%20an%20Age%20of%20Transition.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

This is not an easy reading to begin this section, but this keynote address by Immanuel Wallerstein at a conference on “State and Sovereignty in the World Economy” provides a remarkably comprehensive description of the role of the nation-state in the culture of capitalism.\u00a0 It also complements nicely the discussion of the nation-state in\u00a0Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism.\u00a0 The views expressed by Wallerstein are not shared by all social scientists and historians, but they are persuasive and provocative. In this address he focuses on two key questions about the origin, nature and role of the nation-state: first, in what ways are capitalists dependent on the nation-state for their accumulation of wealth. and, second, since the nation-state operates primarily in the service of capitalists, how does it maintain its sovereignty, that is its control, over everyone else? The nation-state, Wallerstein argues, serves the needs of capitalists in a number of ways. For example, it guarantees property rights and protects capital from theft, confiscation, and excessive taxation. It also protects capitalists from a “free market,” that is one that allows for the easy entrance of competitors. It also subsidizes the capitalist by, among other things, assuming part of the cost of production (e.g. building and maintaining communication systems, education systems, judiciary systems, etc.), and protecting capitalists from paying for damages they do to the property of others (damages to the environment, to people’s health, etc.) But why, asks Wallerstein, when capitalists receive most of the benefits of the actions of nation-states, do these states maintain their power and legitimacy? Part of the answer lies with the ideology of “liberalism,” whose history Wallerstein describes. But, as you will see, maintaining sovereignty in an era of globalization is no easy thing; in fact, says Wallerstein, the legitimacy of nation-states are presently being questioned as never before. Furthermore, he says, “The sovereignty of states–their inward and outward sovereignty within the framework of an interstate system–is a fundamental pillar of the capitalist world economy. If it fails, or seriously declines, capitalism is untenable as a system.”<\/p>\n

Reading 2.\u00a0Nations and Nationalism: The Nationalism Project
\nhttp:\/\/www.nationalismproject.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Ernest Gellner’s book, Nations and Nationalism, \u00a0contrasts the needs of agrarian societies (which he calls “Agraria”) with those of industrial societies, and concludes that the modern state developed to meet the needs of industrial society. Gellner proposes that the nation-state exists primarily because of the need of industrial societies for economic integration and cultural homogeneity; furthermore, he says, the medium through which this integration and homogenization is accomplished is through education.\u00a0 As Gellner said, instead of using a monopoly on force to accomplish integration, the modern state uses its monopoly on education.\u00a0 Gellner\u2019s work and that of others who research nations and nationalism can be found on the site of the Nationalism Project.<\/p>\n

Reading 3.\u00a0From Miracle to Crash
\n<\/a>http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v20\/n08\/ande02_.html<\/a><\/p>\n

In this article, Benedict Anderson explains the political and economic forces that were behind the rapid and dramatic economic rise of Southeast Asian countries in the 1970s and 80s, and their subsequent collapses in 1997.\u00a0 This is another fairly lengthy article, but it is valuable for a number of reasons.\u00a0 First, the article is a superb case study of the interplay between economics and politics, the capitalist and the nation-state, in the modern world.\u00a0 Second, it describes in some depth the role of ethnic groups (in this case the Chinese) in nation-states. Third, the article provides a particularly good summary of the economic and political development in Indonesia, one that complements the discussion in Chapter Three of\u00a0Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism.\u00a0 Finally, it provides a sometimes chilling description of how powerful nation-states can use that power to control the economic, political, and social affairs of weaker nation-states.<\/p>\n

Reading 4.\u00a0The Chile Coup: The U.S. Hand<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/1990s\/consor33.html<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the functions of the nation-state in the culture of capitalism is to guarantee the assets of capitalists, particularly their rights to private property.\u00a0 However, what happens when that property is held in other countries?\u00a0 If the nation-state is powerful enough, it can use its resources and\/or military to intervene. \u00a0 The United States in the last half-century has intervened to help overthrow democratically elected governments in Iran, Guatemala, and Chile among others when those governments threatened the overseas investments of American or multinational concerns. \u00a0 The case of Chile is relevant today because of the October 1998 arrest in England of Augusto Pinochet , the general who assumed power after the American sponsored overthrow of Salvador Allende.\u00a0 This article by Peter Kornbluh that appeared in\u00a0The Consortium\u00a0 was based on recently released government documents, and details the process through which a powerful capitalist nation-state can intervene in the workings of a less powerful state when it believes that the best interests of its capitalists are not being served<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

B. The Relationship Between Ethnic Groups and the Nation-State<\/strong><\/p>\n

The major defining characteristic of nation-states is a shared language and culture.\u00a0 In fact, one of the major tasks of any nation-state is to at least convince its citizens that they share a common culture.\u00a0 The problem is that few nation-states meet that criteria.\u00a0 The question is, what is the consequence of the fact that nation-states are not culturally homogenous, and what actions can be taken by these states to address this situation.<\/p>\n

Reading 5.\u00a0Death by Government\u00a0(a selection)
\nhttp:\/\/www2.hawaii.edu\/~rummel\/DBG.CHAP1.HTM<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the first chapter of Rudolph Rummel’s book, Death by Government.\u00a0 In this book, which is one of a series he has done on the same topic, Rummel documents the number of citizens that have been killed by their own governments.\u00a0 Rummel’s basic thesis is that the more totalitarian the government, the more likely they are to torture and murder.\u00a0 Democratic governments, he argues, do kill, but nowhere on the scale of authoritarian or totalitarian states.\u00a0 Yet, as he makes clear, nation-states, with their alleged monopoly on the use of force, tend to be by far the greatest source of murder and mayhem.\u00a0 For example, review his statistics on the number of citizens killed by the\u00a0major megamurderers of the 20th Century<\/a><\/p>\n

Reading 6.\u00a0The Wannasee Protocol
\nhttps:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160330073707\/https:\/\/fcit.usf.edu\/holocaust\/resource\/document\/DocWanns.htm<\/a>\u00a0 and http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/the-wannsee-protocol<\/a><\/p>\n

This is perhaps the most horrifying document of the Jewish \u00a0 Holocaust.\u00a0\u00a0 It is on the Internet at the\u00a0Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust,<\/a>\u00a0a collection of primary documents that include excerpts from the writings of Hitler and Himmler, Nazi decrees against the Jews, Nazi descriptions of the concentration camps and the gassing of prisoners, and the opening address at the Nuremberg Trials. The Wannasee protocol\u00a0 describes the steps to be taken to eliminate Jews. \u00a0 It is one of the primary documents of the Nazi’s Final Solution<\/p>\n

Reading 7.\u00a0About Lynching
\nhttp:\/\/www.english.uiuc.edu\/maps\/poets\/g_l\/lynching\/lynching.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

We tend to associate terrorism with small groups of people who use violence to achive their aims.\u00a0 But there is also state terrorism where the state uses violence to control portions of the population, or allows extra-state groups to use violence with no fear of being prosecuted.\u00a0 Lynching in the United States provides a good example of such violence.\u00a0 Black Americans were the major victims of lynching, as these brief articles describe.\u00a0 Virtually no one was ever prosecuted for participating in a lynching, and participants and perpetrators even had their photographs taken at lynchings and made into\u00a0postcards (see http:\/\/withoutsanctuary.org\/main.html<\/a>) \u00a0\u00a0 To get the feeling of the mood at a lyching, read the lyrics to\u00a0Strange Fruit<\/a>, popularized by singer Billie Holiday.\u00a0 Photographs of lynching victims follow the main reading.<\/p>\n

Exercise 1.\u00a0\u00a0Present Global Conflicts
\nhttps:\/\/www.cfr.org\/interactives\/global-conflict-tracker#!\/global-conflict-tracker<\/a><\/p>\n

This map at the\u00a0Council on Foreign Relations details most (but not all) of the current intra-state conflicts in the world.\u00a0 The existence of these conflicts tends to confirm Rudolph Rummel’s point that most deadly quarrels are between nation-states and their own citizens.\u00a0 Each of the specified conflicts is a link that will take you to additional resources on the conflict.\u00a0 Simply browse through the sites, and see if you can detect some features that all or most of the conflicts have in common<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

C. The Future of the Nation-State<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is some thought that the future of the nation-state is insecure.\u00a0 Some point to the increase in migration in the world, others to the rise of the transnational corporations, yet others to the increasing importance of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in delivering services to people.\u00a0 The following readings each address that idea, although each concludes, that while the nation-state may change, its importance to the culture of capitalism is too great for it to disappear.<\/p>\n

Reading 8.\u00a0\u00a0Maps Myths and Migrants
\nhttps:\/\/newint.org\/features\/1998\/09\/05\/keynote<\/a><\/p>\n

Globalization has dissolved national boundaries as more and more people migrate in search of employment.\u00a0 As Anouk Ride points out in this article from\u00a0New Internationalist, almost everyone has to sell something to survive, and often the only thing they have to sell is their labor.\u00a0 But as boundaries dissolve, borders, as Richard Kearney has explained, have been reinforced.\u00a0 That is as more and more people migrate from poor countries to rich countries in search of work, governments in rich countries have been urged by their citizens to strengthen borders to prevent immigration. \u00a0 To some, immigrants pose a threat to the economy, to the social fabric of the country, even, some argue, to the environment.\u00a0 But migrants, as Ride explains, contribute far more to national economies than they receive, a fact explainable, in part, because they are willing to work for far less than citizens<\/p>\n

Reading 9.\u00a0War and Peace
\nhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/saturday_review\/story\/0,3605,655478,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Nation-states claim to have a monopoly on the use of armed force, a monopoly that they use with disturbing frequency.\u00a0 In this article, distinguished historian Eric Hobsbawm examines the history of war in the 20th century and tries to project what sort of wars will be fought in the 21st century<\/p>\n

Reading 10.\u00a0Bases, Empire and Global Response
\nhttps:\/\/nyupress.org\/webchapters\/lutz_intro.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Catherine Lutz documents the spread of U.S. militarism in which over a quarter of a million troops are stationed in some 737 bases spread around 130 countries.\u00a0 She examines the impacts of these facilities in the countries in which they are situated and explores also the meaning of this unprecedented military expansion and how it is stimulating protest<\/p>\n

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