State Building and War in Europe since 1200

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel offers a panoramic of recent advances in quantitative analysis of state building in Europe. Wieland and Moller study the effect of the crusades on state capacity with original data on royal orders and administration demands in thirteenth-century England. Cappelen and Hariri study coercive authority in medieval and early modern Europe leveraging a novel dataset on castle ownership. Mangini and Petroff study the incidence and location of warfare in medieval and early modern Europe by looking at war technology investments and target valuation. Bertoli and Lee revisit the connection between war and state capacity by focusing on the bureaucratic transformation of Britain between 1660 and 1870.

Sub Unit

• Division 7: Politics and History

Individual Presentations

• Lord Edward’s Crusade and English State Capacity: Evidence from the Close Rolls - Anders Gammelholm Wieland, Aarhus University; Jorgen Moller, University of Aarhus

• Monopolizing Violence: State Formation in Medieval and Early Modern Europe - Christoffer Cappelen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Jacob Gerner Hariri, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen

• Technology, Cost, and Incidence of Conflict - Casey Petroff, University of Rochester; Michael-David Mangini, Yale University

• War, Politics, and the Birth of Modern Bureaucracy - Matteo Bertoli; Alexander Lee, University of Rochester

Chair

• Melissa M. Lee University of Pennsylvania

Discussants

• Caterina Chiopris Harvard University

• Melissa M. Lee University of Pennsylvania