Irregular armed forces and their role in politics and state formation / edited by Diane E. Davis, Anthony W. Pereira.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contemporary challenges and historical reflections on the study of militaries, states, and politics / Diane E. Davis -- Armed force, regimes, and contention in Europe since 1650 / Charles Tilly -- Limited war and limited states / Miguel Angel Centeno -- Where do all the soldiers go? : veterans and the politics of demobilization / Alec Campbell -- Military mobilization and the transformation of property relationships : wars that defined the Japanese style of capitalism / Eiko Ikegami -- Send a thief to catch a thief : state-building and the employment of irregular military formations in mid-nineteenth-century Greece / Achilles Batalas.

Reform and reaction : paramilitary groups in contemporary Colombia / Mauricio Romero -- Policing the people, building the state : the police-military nexus in Argentina, 1880-1945 / Laura Kalmanowiecki -- War-making and U.S. state formation : mobilization, demobilization, and the inherent ambiguities of federalism / Susan M. Browne -- Politics is thicker than blood : Union and Confederate veterans in the U.S. House of Representatives in the late nineteenth century / Richard Franklin Bensel -- Police municipale and the formation of the French state / Lizabeth Zack -- Domestic militarization in a transnational perspective : patriotic and militaristic youth mobilization in France and Indochina, 1940-1945 / Anne Raffin -- Changing nature of warfare and the absence of state-building in West Africa / William Reno -- Ghost of Vietnam : America confronts the new world disorder / Ian Roxborough -- Armed forces, coercive monopolies, and changing patterns of state formation and violence / Anthony W. Pereira.