LEADER 04402nam 22007212 450 001 9910790346603321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-22964-2 010 $a1-139-50807-5 010 $a1-280-77401-0 010 $a9786613684783 010 $a1-139-51768-6 010 $a1-139-51510-1 010 $a1-139-00519-7 010 $a1-139-51418-0 010 $a1-139-51675-2 010 $a1-139-51861-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000206156 035 $a(EBL)944725 035 $a(OCoLC)796383861 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000689018 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11396183 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000689018 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10614024 035 $a(PQKB)10385832 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139005197 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC944725 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL944725 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10578241 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL368478 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000206156 100 $a20110131d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aExternal intervention and the politics of state formation $eChina, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893-1952 /$fJa Ian Chongn, National University of Singapore$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 293 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-67978-8 311 $a1-107-01375-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis 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. 517 3 $aExternal Intervention & the Politics of State Formation 606 $aState, The$vCase studies 606 $aPolitical development$vCase studies 607 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y20th century 607 $aIndonesia$xPolitics and government$y20th century 607 $aThailand$xPolitics and government$y20th century 615 0$aState, The 615 0$aPolitical development 676 $a320.95 686 $aPOL040020$2bisacsh 700 $aChong$b Ja Ian$01479437 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790346603321 996 $aExternal intervention and the politics of state formation$93695545 997 $aUNINA