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Title: External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation
Author : Ja Ian Chong
Release Date : January 29, 2012
Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 3944 KB

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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.