Charles Tilly's Theory Of Modern State Formation

The formation of the modern state is a grand historical and social change process is an important sociological study of history, is one of Tilly's three major academic concerns. According to Tilly's Historical Sociology approach, there are three issues about state-building:War, Coercion and Capital. He puts "state" as a machine of war (or preparing to war). State is an efficient organization, no matter in protecting or invading. Coercion and Capital, the other two strengths of state-making, means the effect of politics and economy. Competition or coordination, the interaction of the two makes state-formation more complicated.He answers for the formation of the modern state is essentially a community focus, and he grabbed the war in that country to form the main content and links. Attention from capital accumulation and concentration of urban systems and to master the interaction of state coercive power, that war is the key to the financial resources to extract and military armaments virtuous cycle between the construction, thereby " Capital of force, "the road to successfully achieving the military armed with the financial mechanism of the internalization. The only way to everywhere in the Western European powers, to survive the political arena and to develop. In such a process, state formation and capital development to promote each other through the class and competition between groups and resistance, continue to affect resource extraction strategy rulers, thus shaping the countries of the organization, structure and the countries themselves appearance, but also affect the nation-state system was established.