War Making And State Making As Organized Crime Tilly Summary

In “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime” Charles Tilly argues that there is an analogy to be drawn between state, or war making and organized crime. He argues that the powers in control of both state and war making are “self-seeking entrepreneurs”. Tilly believes that the people who hold the control of both war and state creation are just as guilty of creating violence for their own personal advantages and gains as those “self- seeking entrepreneurs” he compares them to. Tilly argues that this comparison is true by pointing out the ways in which power holders organize violence to better fit their agendas. These ways being; extraction of resources, the give and take of protection, and both war/state making. Tilly’s overall