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001 2012001014
003 DLC
005 20120125100003.0
008 120113s2012 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012001014
020 $a9781107013759
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aJC273$b.C585 2012
082 00 $a320.95$223
084 $aPOL040020$2bisacsh
100 1 $aChong, Ja Ian.
245 10 $aExternal intervention and the politics of state formation :$bChina, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893-1952 /$cJa Ian Chong.
260 $aCambridge :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
263 $a1204
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"This book posits that when foreign actors face high opportunity costs of intervention in a weak state, their behavior may foster state sovereignty"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine 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 approaches to intervention; 6. How intervention remade the Chinese state, 1923-52: 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, externalizing comparative politics: foreign intervention and the state in world politics.
650 0 $aState, The$vCase studies.
650 0 $aPolitical development$vCase studies.
651 0 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y20th century.
651 0 $aIndonesia$xPolitics and government$y20th century.
651 0 $aThailand$xPolitics and government$y20th century.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International.$2bisacsh