TY - BOOK AU - Chong,Ja Ian TI - External intervention and the politics of state formation: China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893-1952 SN - 9781139518611 AV - JC273 .C585 2012 U1 - 320.95 PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - State, The KW - Case studies KW - Political development KW - État KW - Études de cas KW - Développement politique KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Government KW - International KW - bisacsh KW - Political Process KW - General KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - China KW - 20th century KW - Indonesia KW - Thailand KW - Chine KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - 20e siècle KW - Indonésie KW - Thaïlande KW - Electronic books KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - "This book posits that when foreign actors face high opportunity costs of intervention in a weak state, their behavior may foster state sovereignty"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=458642 ER -