Historical Legacies of State Capacity, Conflict, and Insurgency

Session Submission Type: Full Submitted Panel

Session Description

Panel abstract: This panel brings together papers which focus on the effect of colonial institutions on various processes of state capacity, road networks, ethnic identity, and indirect rule, and how these have long term consequences on conflict and insurgency. These papers fill a gap in the literature on civil wars and insurgency, which are mostly ahistorical and do not take the role of past institutions seriously, by analyzing the path dependent effects of previous conflict and institutions on ethnic exclusion, grievances and state formation. This panel contributes to the theme of legitimacy, by analyzing historical processes of state formation, ethnic exclusion, economic exploitation, to understand their long term effects on lack of legitimacy of the state and processes of violent contention.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 46: QUALITATIVE METHODS

Individual Presentations

• Conquered but not Vanquished: Indigenous Entrepreneurs in the Shadow of Violence - Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Stanford University; Saumitra Jha, Stanford University

• Colonialism, Religion & Rebellion: How Missions Shaped Insurgency in India - Anoop K. Sarbahi, University of Minnesota

• Roads for Ruling, Roads for Rebelling - Carl Müller-Crepon, ETH Zurich; Philipp Hunziker, Northeastern University; Lars-Erik Cederman, ETH Zurich

• Colonial legacies? Ethno-political exclusion and conflict around the world - Andreas Wimmer, Columbia University

Chair

• Steven I. Wilkinson Yale University

Discussants

• Mark Beissinger Princeton University

• Shivaji Mukherjee University of Toronto