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External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation: China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893-1952

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: June 29, 2012

ISBN: 1107013755

ISBN 13: 9781107013759

External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation: China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893-1952

0/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: June 29, 2012

ISBN: 1107013755

ISBN 13: 9781107013759

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