Cameron G. Thies

TL;DR: The authors argue that current applications of these models of state building are too narrowly specified to be of much use in Latin America or elsewhere in the developing world, and argue that external and internal rivals affect the Latin American state in a manner consistent with the general nature of bellicist theory.

TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between civil war onset and state capacity through a focus on the role of primary commodities, and found that primary commodities played a crucial role in the civil war outbreak.

TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between state building, interstate and intrastate rivalry in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and Asia from 1975 to 2000 and found that external and internal rivals increase the extractive capacity of the state in a manner similar to the experience of early modern Europe.

TL;DR: The authors explores the potential problems encountered by political scientists as they conduct archival research or rely on secondary source material produced by historians and suggests guidelines for researchers to minimize the main problems associated with qualitative historical research, namely, investigator bias and unwarranted selectivity in the use of historical source materials.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the state-building process in the developing world through an application of the European-inspired predatory theory of the state, and examined the effects of both internal and external rivals on state extractive capacity in the region from 1975 to 2000.