External intervention and the politics of state formation : China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893-1952 / / Ja Ian Chongn, National University of Singapore [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Chong Ja Ian
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 320.95
• Soggetto topico: State, The; Political development
• Soggetto geografico: China Politics and government 20th century; Indonesia Politics and government 20th century; Thailand Politics and government 20th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: External Intervention & the Politics of State Formation
• Titolo autorizzato: External intervention and the politics of state formation
• ISBN: 1-107-22964-2; 1-139-50807-5; 1-280-77401-0; 9786613684783; 1-139-51768-6; 1-139-51510-1; 1-139-00519-7; 1-139-51418-0; 1-139-51675-2; 1-139-51861-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462443103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II