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External intervention and the politics of state formation : China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893-1952 /

"This book posits that when foreign actors face high opportunity costs of intervention in a weak state, their behavior may foster state sovereignty"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chong, Ja Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.