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

Awards:   Winner of Best Book Award, International Security Studies Section, International Studies Association 2014 Winner of International Studies Association International Security Studies Section Best Book Award 2014 Winner of International Studies Association International Security Studies Section Best Book Award 2014.
Author:   Ja Ian Chong (National University of Singapore)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107679788


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 May 2014
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External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation: China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893–1952


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  • Winner of Best Book Award, International Security Studies Section, International Studies Association 2014
  • Winner of International Studies Association International Security Studies Section Best Book Award 2014
  • Winner of International Studies Association International Security Studies Section Best Book Award 2014.

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Author:   Ja Ian Chong (National University of Singapore)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9781107679788


ISBN 10:   1107679788
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 May 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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. Feudalizing the Chinese polity, 1893–1922: assessing the adequacy of alternative takes on state reorganization; 4. External influence and China's feudalization, 1893–1922: opportunity costs and patterns of foreign intervention; 5. The evolution of foreign involvement in China, 1923–52: rising opportunity costs and convergent approaches to intervention; 6. How intervention remade the Chinese state, 1923–52: 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, externalizing comparative politics: foreign intervention and the state in world politics.

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Chong evaluates interactions among local political groups, governance institutions, external actors, and pressures from international system...He considers the competition among several powers (e.g., the US, Britain, Russia, Japan, France) as they intervened these fragile states, their rivalry creating conditions favorable for political centralization, territorial exclusivity, and external autonomy, the marks of the sovereign state. The argument Chong makes also applies to fragile states today, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Kosovo -G.A. McBeath, University of Alaska Fairbanks, CHOICE


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Ja Ian Chong is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD in politics from Princeton University in 2008 and was a 2008–9 Research Associate with the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program. His research has received support from the Chiang Ching-kuo International Foundation for Scholarly Exchange, the Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows, the Bradley Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies and the Princeton East Asian Studies Program. He has worked in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, as well as the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies and the East Asian Institute in Singapore. He has previously taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His work has appeared in Twentieth-Century China and Security Studies.

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