External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation: China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893–1952 - Hardcover

Chong, Ja Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107013755 ISBN 13: 9781107013759

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Chong argues that when foreign actors face high opportunity costs of intervention in a weak state, their behavior may foster sovereignty.

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About the Author

Ja Ian Chong is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD in politics from Princeton University in 2008 and was a 2008–9 Research Associate with the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program. His research has received support from the Chiang Ching-kuo International Foundation for Scholarly Exchange, the Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows, the Bradley Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies and the Princeton East Asian Studies Program. He has worked in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, as well as the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies and the East Asian Institute in Singapore. He has previously taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His work has appeared in Twentieth-Century China and Security Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107013755
• ISBN 13: 9781107013759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304