| Wednesday, January 7 |
Spruyt 1994, ‘Institutional Selection in International Relations: State Anarchy as Order’ |
| Monday, January 12 |
Olson 1993, ‘Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development’ |
| Wednesday, January 14 |
Sánchez de la Sierra 2020, ‘On the Origins of the State’ |
| Wednesday, January 21 |
Tilly 1990, ‘How War Made States, and Vice Versa’ |
| Monday, January 26 |
Abramson 2017, ‘The Economic Origins of the Territorial State’ |
| Wednesday, February 4 |
Thies 2005, ‘War, Rivalry, and State Building in Latin America’ |
| Monday, February 9 |
Dincecco and Wang 2018, ‘Violent Conflict and Political Development Over the Long Run: China versus Europe’ |
| Monday, February 16 |
Levi 1988, Of Rule and Revenue |
| Wednesday, February 18 |
Karaman and Pamuk 2013, ‘Different Paths to the Modern State in Europe’ |
| Monday, February 23 |
Queralt 2019, ‘War, International Finance, and Fiscal Capacity in the Long Run’ |
| Wednesday, February 25 |
Kenkel and Paine 2023, ‘A Theory of External Wars and European Parliaments’ |
| Wednesday, March 4 |
Cox, Dincecco, and Onorato 2023, ‘Window of Opportunity: War and the Origins of Parliament’ |
| Monday, March 16 |
Acemoglu and Robinson 2000, ‘Why Did the West Extend the Franchise?’ |
| Wednesday, March 18 |
Przeworski 2008, ‘Conquered or Granted? A History of Suffrage Extensions’ |
| Monday, March 23 |
Blattman 2009, ‘From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda’ |
| Wednesday, March 25 |
Anderson 1983, Imagined Communities |
| Monday, March 30 |
Sambanis, Skaperdas, Wohlforth 2015, ‘Nation-Building through War’ |
| Wednesday, April 1 |
Darden and Mylonas 2016, ‘Threats to Territorial Integrity, National Mass Schooling, and Linguistic Commonality’ |
| Monday, April 13 |
Brewer 1988, The Sinews of Power, chapters 3–4 |
| Wednesday, April 15 |
Chen 2023, ‘State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China’ |