War Making and State Making as Organized Crime

Charles Tilly

What do states do?

As should now be clear, Lane's analysis of protection fails to distinguish among several different uses of state-controlled violence. Under the general heading of organized violence, the agents of states characteristically carry on four different activities:

1. War making: Eliminating or neutralizing their own rivals outside the territories in which they have dear and continuous priority as wielders of force

2. State making: Eliminating or neutralizing their rivals inside those territories

3. Protection: Eliminating or neutralizing the enemies of their clients

4. Extraction: Acquiring the means of carrying out the first three activities - war making, state making, and protection.http://www.jesusradicals.com/wp-content/uploads/warmaking1.pdf