国内战争与莫桑比克国家建构

Abstract:Based upon the history of European states’ formation，Charles Tilly argued that tremendous financial pressure generated by interstate wars compelled the government to restructure its financial，tax and police departments. The augmented capacity of these key sectors in turn led to an overall expansion of the entire state machinery. Meanwhile，with the threat of external threats，nationalism significantly grew among the citizenries. After the Second World War，collective violence worldwide tended to take the form of civil war. Civil war is arguably supposed to exert differential effects upon state construction. Our analysis of Mozambican civil war lends support to the Tillyan hypothesis that civil war significantly increased a state’s fiscal capacity，strengthened the community consciousness of its population and enhanced the regime’s legitimacy. Nonetheless，there is also evidence that the war’s impact upon Mozambican military capacity was moderate and that military capacity heavily financed by foreign assistance was unsustainable. With the sizable reduction of external aid，it is beyond the capacity of Mozambican weak economy and finance to sustain a large army. Moreover，the impact of civil violence on state construction is temporary. It does not turn out to be a reliable approach to enduring state-building.

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