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Kidnapping and State Development in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2006

Kathleen J. Frydl
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

A nation-state defending against threats may, in the process, alter itself: some threats cannot be handled by existing political and institutional arrangements. Of course, the dynamic response undertaken to answer external, state-issued threats has been widely noted. Many students of government—if not history—understand wars between nations to be a great catalyst for state development. Interestingly, even non-state and vastly weaker threats can elicit transformative responses.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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