2. International Politics Club (Forum) Organizational meeting tonight at 8 pm Bernhard Center, main floor, near dining services entrance

3. Reminder Writing assignment I has been posted on class website (not WebCT) Due September 22nd in class

4. States Have internal and external sovereignty (authority over population in territory)

5. Tilly, Charles. 1985. "War–Making and State-Making as Organized Crime,” in Bringing the State Back In, Eds. Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol. New York: Cambridge University Press.

6. States Have internal and external sovereignty (authority over population in territory) a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in the territory

7. Competing definitions of legitimacy: Assent of the people Probability other authorities will respect a given authority

8. Stop and think about approaches: State-making as institution building State-making as product of rulers’ interests (the logic of expanding power)