Ja Ian Chong

External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation (eBook, ePUB)

China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893-1952

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores ways foreign intervention and external rivalries can affect the institutionalization of governance in weak states. When sufficiently competitive, foreign rivalries in a weak state can actually foster the political centralization, territoriality and autonomy associated with state sovereignty. This counterintuitive finding comes from studying the collective effects of foreign contestation over a weak state as informed by changes in the expected opportunity cost of intervention for outside actors. When interveners associate high opportunity costs with intervention, they bolster sovereign statehood as a next best alternative to their worst fear - domination of that polity by adversaries. Sovereign statehood develops if foreign actors concurrently and consistently behave this way toward a weak state. This book evaluates that argument against three 'least likely' cases - China, Indonesia and Thailand between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139508070
• Artikelnr.: 52932083

Autorenporträt

Ja Ian Chong is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD in politics from Princeton University in 2008 and was a 2008-9 Research Associate with the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program. His research has received support from the Chiang Ching-kuo International Foundation for Scholarly Exchange, the Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows, the Bradley Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies and the Princeton East Asian Studies Program. He has worked in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, as well as the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies and the East Asian Institute in Singapore. He has previously taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His work has appeared in Twentieth-Century China and Security Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Molding the institutions of governance: theories of state formation and
the contingency of sovereignty in fragile polities; 2. Imposing states:
foreign rivalries, local collaboration, and state form in peripheral
polities; 3. Feudalizing the Chinese polity, 1893-1922: assessing the
adequacy of alternative takes on state reorganization; 4. External
influence and China's feudalization, 1893-1922: opportunity costs and
patterns of foreign intervention; 5. The evolution of foreign involvement
in China, 1923-52: rising opportunity costs and convergent approaches to
intervention; 6. How intervention remade the Chinese state, 1923-52:
foreign sponsorship and the building of sovereign China; 7. Creating
Indonesia, 1893-1952: major power rivalry and the making of sovereign
statehood; 8. Siam stands apart, 1893-1952: external intervention and rise
of a sovereign Thai state; 9. Domesticating international relations,
externalizing comparative politics: foreign intervention and the state in
world politics.