External Intervention And The Politics Of State Formation: China, Indonesia, And Thailand, 1893?952

This book explores ways in which 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. 9781107679788 1107679788 304 Political Science NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=keX2ngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Ja Ian Chong
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: May 01, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 304 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1107679788
• • ISBN-13: 9781107679788