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Replication Data for: War Did Make States: Revisiting the Bellicist Paradigm in Early Modern Europe

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Title Replication Data for: War Did Make States: Revisiting the Bellicist Paradigm in Early Modern Europe
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/04QUNY
 
Creator Girardin, Luc
Cederman, Lars-Erik
Galano, Paola
Schvitz, Guy
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Charles Tilly's classical claim that ``war made states'' in early modern Europe remains controversial. The ``bellicist'' paradigm has attracted theoretical criticism both within and beyond its original domain of applicability. While several recent studies have analyzed the internal aspects of Tilly's theory, there have been very few systematic attempts to assess its logic with regard to the territorial expansion of states. In this paper, we test this key aspect of bellicist theory directly by aligning historical data on European state borders with conflict data, focusing primarily on the period from 1490 through 1790. Proceeding at the systemic, state and dyadic levels, our analysis confirms that warfare did in fact play a crucial role in the territorial expansion of European states before (and beyond) the French Revolution.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Girardin, Luc