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

摘要

External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation is an exciting addition to the political science scholarship that brings together the sub-disciplines of comparative domination or fragmentation in fragile polities (p. 224). Nevertheless, when examined more closely, this book boils down to the contention that foreign intervention will contribute to state formation only when all foreign powers regard the cost of intervention as high.