State Formation as Organized Crime

Charles Tilly says that the objective for a government to have control over its territories is to have two types of control, internal and external.  The internal control is where the government has direct power of its country that it is in.  However the government needs an external agency to have control over lands that are outside the governments direct control.  This is very similar to what Weber said bout how a government should control its country.  

     The causes that make a country grow in power is war.   "The very activity of extraction, if successful, entailed the elimination, neutralization, or cooptation of the great lord’s local rivals."  In order to have power you can not have other parties in the country try to go against the government.  If this happens it weakens the power of the government, so the government uses violence to stop the upraising.