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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2012
      29 June 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139005197
      9781107013759
      9781107679788
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139005197
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 304 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 304 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations
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    Area Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations
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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.

    Awards

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

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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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