04367nam 22007092 450 991046244310332120151005020621.01-107-22964-21-139-50807-51-280-77401-097866136847831-139-51768-61-139-51510-11-139-00519-71-139-51418-01-139-51675-21-139-51861-5(CKB)2670000000206156(EBL)944725(OCoLC)796383861(SSID)ssj0000689018(PQKBManifestationID)11396183(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000689018(PQKBWorkID)10614024(PQKB)10385832(UkCbUP)CR9781139005197(MiAaPQ)EBC944725(Au-PeEL)EBL944725(CaPaEBR)ebr10578241(CaONFJC)MIL368478(EXLCZ)99267000000020615620110131d2012|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierExternal intervention and the politics of state formation China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893-1952 /Ja Ian Chongn, National University of Singapore[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2012.1 online resource (x, 293 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-67978-8 1-107-01375-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. Feudalising the Chinese polity, 1893-1922: assessing the adequacy of alternative takes on state reorganization -- 4. External influence and China's feudalisation, 1893-1922: opportunity costs and patterns of foreign intervention -- 5. The evolution of foreign involvement in China, 1923-1952: rising opportunity costs and convergent approaches to intervention -- 6. How intervention remade the Chinese state, 1923-1952: 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, externalising comparative politics: foreign intervention and the state in world politics.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.External Intervention & the Politics of State FormationState, TheCase studiesPolitical developmentCase studiesChinaPolitics and government20th centuryIndonesiaPolitics and government20th centuryThailandPolitics and government20th centuryState, ThePolitical development320.95Chong Ja Ian1048139UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910462443103321External intervention and the politics of state formation2476184UNINA