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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Law</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Law</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Юридические науки</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2337</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-9001</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">49407</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2337-2026-30-1-121-136</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">RFGTLM</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>HISTORICAL AND LEGAL RESEARC</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ИСТОРИКО-ПРАВОВЫЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Contemporary American Theories on the Violent Causes of the Origin of State and Law</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Современные американские теории о насильственных причинах происхождения государства и права</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9407-8340</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">9151-1394</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kolosov</surname><given-names>Igor V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Колосов</surname><given-names>Игорь Владимирович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Theory and History of State and Law, Faculty of Law</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат юридических наук, доцент кафедры теории и истории государства и права, юридический факультет</p></bio><email>i.v.kolosov@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">A.S. Griboyedov Moscow University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Московский университет имени А.С. Грибоедова</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-04-01" publication-format="electronic"><day>01</day><month>04</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>30</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 30, NO1 (2025)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 30, №1 (2025)</issue-title><fpage>121</fpage><lpage>136</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-04-01"><day>01</day><month>04</month><year>2026</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2026, Kolosov I.V.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2026, Колосов И.В.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kolosov I.V.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Колосов И.В.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/49407">https://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/49407</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>In the contemporary world, where debates about state power, law, justice, and the effectiveness of public administration continue unabated, understanding the origins of these categories is becoming increasingly important. Contemporary American theories have made a significant contribution to elucidating not only the causes of their emergence but also the resulting nature of these categories. Drawing on the fundamental legacy of classical political and legal thought, these authors, substantiate the role of coercion, conflict, and war in catalyzing the emergence of the first state formations and legal systems. Accordingly, a detailed examination of this issue is particularly relevant for legal theory. The purpose of this article is to identify the significance of violent causes in the emergence of the state and law in contemporary American theories. This goal is pursued by analyzing the contributions of individual theories to understanding the historical process of the formation of state and legal institutions, with particular attention to their empirical foundations. The theoretical basis of the study consists of the works of contemporary American representatives of the Chicago School of Economic Analysis of Law, as well as scholars from related social sciences, including political science, sociology, and history, along with game theory as a branch of mathematical analysis applicable to law. The research methodology relies on tools traditional to historical and legal scholarship. General philosophical and scientific methods are employed while among the specific scientific methods, in addition to legal ones, historical methods play an important role, including historical-genetic, historical-comparative, and historical-typological approaches. The study concludes that a high frequency of conflicts and clashes does indeed stimulate the emergence of centralized authority to protect against external and internal threats and, as a consequence, leads to the formation of the state and law as mechanisms for creating public goods through taxation. However, this is not the only factor, and violent causes should be considered alongside other social, economic, and cultural determinants of state and legal development.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В современном мире, в котором дискуссии о государственной власти, праве, справедливости и эффективности государственного управления не утихают, понимание естества источников данных категорий приобретает все большее значение. Отдельный вклад в уяснение не только причин возникновения, но и вытекающей из них природы соответствующих категорий внесли современные американские теории. Их авторы, опираясь на фундаментальное наследие классической политико-правовой мысли, обосновывают роль принуждения, конфликтов и войн для катализации процессов появления первых государственных образований и правовых систем. Ввиду этого детальное рассмотрение обозначенного вопроса является актуальным для юридической теории. Цель работы - выявление значения насильственных причин возникновения государства и права в современных американских теориях. Достижение цели обеспечивается посредством рассмотрения вклада отдельных теорий в понимание исторического процесса формирования государственно-правовых институтов, при этом особое внимание уделяется эмпирической основе. Теоретическую основу исследования составляют труды современных американских представителей экономического анализа права в рамках Чикагской школы права, представителей иных общественных наук - политологии, социологии, истории, а также теории игр как направления математического анализа, применимой и в праве. Методология исследования основывается на традиционном для историко-правовой науки инструментарии. В частности, применялись общефилософские и общенаучные методы исследования. Среди использованных частнонаучных методов, помимо собственно юридических, важную роль играют методы исторической науки: историко-генетический, историко-сравнительный и историко-типологический. Автор приходит к выводу, что высокая частота конфликтов и столкновений является стимулом появления централизованной власти для защиты от внешних и внутренних угроз и как следствие влечет возникновение государства и права для создания общественных благ за счет налогов и сборов, однако обозначенный фактор не является единственным.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Chicago School of Economic Analysis of Law</kwd><kwd>economic analysis of law</kwd><kwd>stationary bandit theory</kwd><kwd>itinerant bandit theory</kwd><kwd>circumscription theory</kwd><kwd>jurimetrics</kwd><kwd>game theory</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Чикагская школа права</kwd><kwd>экономический анализ права</kwd><kwd>теория стационарного бандита</kwd><kwd>теория оседлого бандита</kwd><kwd>теория стесненности</kwd><kwd>юриметрия</kwd><kwd>теория игр в праве</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta><fn-group/></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Arkush, E.N. &amp; Allen, M.W. 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