...................................................................................................................................1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..........................................................................................................2 TABLE OF CONTENTS ..............................................................................................................3 INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................4 CHAPTER 1 REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE .............................................................................................9 OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................9 THE ANARCHY PROBLEMATIQUE ....................................................................................11 SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM.................................................................................................21 NEO-MARXISM.......................................................................................................................28 COMMERCIALIZATION MODEL.........................................................................................32 GEOPOLITICAL COMPETITION MODEL ...........................................................................39 Figure 1.1. The Nexus of Capital and Coercion in State Formation ....................................40 GLOBALITY.............................................................................................................................44 CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................47 CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK.............................................................................................51 OVERVIEW ..............................................................................................................................51 THE ONTOLOGICAL DIMENSION.......................................................................................52 Figure 2.1. The Temporal Layers of Organized Political Violence. ....................................55 Figure 2.2. The Temporal Layers of International Political Transformation. ......................58 THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL DIMENSION ..............................................................................59 THE METHODOLOGICAL DIMENSION..............................................................................64 Figure 2.3. The Nested Relationship between Temporal Modes. ........................................65 Figure 2.4. The Constitutive Transformation of War and Political Organization................67 CRITIQUE.................................................................................................................................70 CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................73 CHAPTER 3 CONSTITUTED MILITARY TRANSITIONS, PAST AND PRESENT...............................76 OVERVIEW ..............................................................................................................................76 FEUDAL TRANSITION IN THE WARFIGHTING PARADIGM .........................................77 FEUDAL TRANSITION IN THE SOCIAL MODE OF WARFARE......................................83 MODERN TRANSITION IN THE WARFIGHTING PARADIGM........................................88 MODERN TRANSITION IN THE SOCIAL MODE OF WARFARE ....................................93 CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................98 CONCLUSION ..........................................................................................................................102 WORKS CITED.........................................................................................................................106