Tilly - "Politics of collective violence"

30 July 2006

11:46

· 20th Century - 250 wars by 1000 measure

· WW1 10% deaths civilian; modern civil wars deaths 90% civilian

· Civil wars grow in 80% and peak with balkans

· Idea of professional armys and interstate war undermined by blurring of military ⁄ civil lines - WHY?

? More countries - more chance of civil war

? US & USSR stoking in CW

? Arms trade increases

? Contraband increases, drugs, migrants etc.

· Europe until c1700 very violent with marauding mercenaries, etc

· 18thC - tighter state control, police etc

· More diplomacy

· Courts & police

· Political relations between govt agencies

· Murder rates, etc all drop

· BUT violence channeled into military establishment?

· Civil strife remains rare in Europe even in revolutionary age.

· US = 50% arms exports

· 50% drugs imports