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This book explores ways 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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political structure & processes

• Full title: External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation
• Author: Ja Ian Chong
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9781107013759
• ISBN: 1107013755
• ID: 01211626
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 582 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 164 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. June 2012

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