{"product_id":"external-intervention-and-the-politics-ja-ian-chong-9781107679788","title":"External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation: China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893-1952","description":"This book explores ways in which 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ja Ian Chong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1107679788\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781107679788\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.68d","brand":"Ja Ian Chong","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44227591045375,"sku":"9781107679788","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4f663e1f-1356-4a0e-8fa9-9ff3a5cea0d8.jpg?v=1692809554","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/external-intervention-and-the-politics-ja-ian-chong-9781107679788","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}