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Scholars of international conflict focus on efforts to understand and predict international wars. However, it is unclear that any substantial differences exist between international wars and the militarized struggles that often occur within states as they undergo state making. In fact, it seems reasonably easy to argue that internal wars of state making and international wars of conquest are directly comparable in many respects. If true, then theories about international wars should help us anticipate internal wars of state making as well. To test this conjecture I analyze the history of conflict and peace among autonomous political units in the South American Rio de la Plata region during the first half of the 19th Century. I employ power transition theory as my analytical guide, and discover that it is a useful empirical tool for predicting when these South American autonomous political units waged war with each other. Larger implications for connecting theories of war and of state making, and thus of expanding the empirical domain of international conflict studies, are also considered.

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Lemke, Douglas. "Wars Within States as Wars Between States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40867_index.html>

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Abstract: Scholars of international conflict focus on efforts to understand and predict international wars. However, it is unclear that any substantial differences exist between international wars and the militarized struggles that often occur within states as they undergo state making. In fact, it seems reasonably easy to argue that internal wars of state making and international wars of conquest are directly comparable in many respects. If true, then theories about international wars should help us anticipate internal wars of state making as well. To test this conjecture I analyze the history of conflict and peace among autonomous political units in the South American Rio de la Plata region during the first half of the 19th Century. I employ power transition theory as my analytical guide, and discover that it is a useful empirical tool for predicting when these South American autonomous political units waged war with each other. Larger implications for connecting theories of war and of state making, and thus of expanding the empirical domain of international conflict studies, are also considered.

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WARS WITHIN STATES AS WARS BETWEEN STATES Douglas Lemke Department of Political Science Pennsylvania State University 205 Pond Lab University Park Pennsylvania 16802 dwl14@psu.edu 814/863-0816 ABSTRACT: Scholars of international conflict focus on efforts to understand and predict international wars. However it is unclear that any substantial differences exist between international wars and the militarized struggles that often occur within states as they undergo state making. In fact it seems reasonably easy to argue that internal wars of state making
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