Screen LibraryExternal intervention and the politics of state formation : China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893-1952 /
"This book posits that when foreign actors face high opportunity costs of intervention in a weak state, their behavior may foster state sovereignty"--
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This book posits that when foreign actors face high opportunity costs of intervention in a weak state, their behavior may foster state sovereignty"-- |
| Carrier Form: | x, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107013759 : 1107013755 |
| Index Number: | JC273 |
| CLC: |
D734.22 D733.62 D62 |
| Call Number: | D62/C548 |
| Contents: | Machine generated contents note: 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 approache |