External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation

Chong, Ja Ian

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“…Todd Hall (2015) integrates emotion theory with IR theory to shed light on the role of state-level emotional behavior in states' strategies and interactions with other states. Ja Ian Chong (2012) enriches state formation scholarship by examining the role of foreign intervention and external rivalries in affecting the institutionalization of governance in weak states. One feature of this new generation of China scholars is that they no longer concentrate on China as their sole research focus, as traditional area studies scholars do.…”

Section: Three Approaches and The Role Of Chinese Ir Scholarsmentioning

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The study of Chinese scholars in foreign policy analysis: an emerging research program

Feng

2020

The Pacific Review

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A review of studies of China's foreign policy reveals three dominant methods: the area studies approach, the IR theory method, and the integrated approach. We suggest that it is time to pay close attention to an emerging research program focusing on the study of Chinese international relations (IR) scholars, especially their internal debates, as a new venue to understand China's foreign policy. Although Chinese IR scholars are normally quoted as valuable sources in the study of Chinese foreign policy in general, there is no systematic study of China's IR scholars per se. In order to transform the study of Chinese IR scholars to a full-fledged research program, researchers need to pursue theoretical innovations on the relationship between different types of IR scholars and foreign policy inquiries, advance multi-method research designs across the different methods of field interviews, textual analysis, and opinion surveys, as well as encourage international collaboration between Chinese scholars and non-Chinese scholars.

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The study of Chinese scholars in foreign policy analysis: an emerging research program

Feng

2020

The Pacific Review

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“…Such fissures translated into infighting amongst political groups in spite of significant foreign pressure, seen in the rivalries between the various militarist cliques, the CCP and KMT, different KMT factions, as well as various CCP factions (Eastman, 1990;Fitzgerald, 1996;Pepper, 1991;Wilbur, 1969). Desires to overcome domestic adversaries historically opened groups claiming nationalist agendas to compromise with foreign actors in return for economic, military and political backing (Chen, 1973;Chong, 2012;Huang, 2005;Kirby, 1984;Yang, 1997;Zhang, 2004: 1;Zhou, 1997). Nationalist aspirations today may not automatically spell strong, unified responses to national challenges if nationalism remains subject to manipulation, partition and co-optation by different groups (Anderson, 1991: 159).…”

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Popular narratives versus Chinese history: Implications for understanding an emergent China

Chong

2013

European Journal of International Relations

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Closely associated with China’s growing prominence in international politics are discussions about how to understand Chinese history, and how such perspectives inform the way a stronger China may relate to the rest of the world. This article examines two narratives as cases, and considers how they fit against more careful historical scholarship. The first is the nationalist narrative dealing with Qing and Republican history, and the second is the narrative on the Chinese world order. Analyses of Chinese nationalism tend to see a more powerful China as being more assertive internationally, based in part on a belief in the need to address and overcome past wrongs. Studies of historical regional systems in Asia point to the role that a peaceful ‘Confucian’ ethos played in sustaining a stable Chinese-led order, and highlight the promise it holds for checking regional and international tensions. The two perspectives create an obvious tension when trying to understand China’s rise, which can suggest that using historical viewpoints to understand contemporary developments may be doomed to incoherence. This article argues that difficulties in applying knowledge of the past to analyses of China’s role in contemporary world politics indicate a relative inattentiveness to Chinese and Asian history. It illustrates how the nature of China’s rise may be more contingent on the external environment that it faces than popular received wisdom may indicate. The article suggests that a more extensive engagement with historical research and historiography can augment and enrich attempts to appreciate the context surrounding China’s rise.

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“…They have tested the efficiency of direct and indirect governance of the global nation-state, and they believe that only in the mode of effective cooperation between the central government and local authorities can the state-building be stable (Gerring 2011). Some scholars believe that the inclusive system is the key to overcoming internal colonialism (Olson 2007, Tilly 2007, Acemoglu & Robinson 2013, Chong 2012, Migdalm 2012, North 2013. James S. Scott put forward the "State effect theory".…”

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State-building and internal colonialism: A case study of the separatism in Aceh and West Papua, Indonesia

Li,

Zheng

2023

MKP

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Adaptation to the norms of nation-states has always been one of the most important issues for Southeast Asian countries. This paper takes Aceh and Western Papua as examples to explore their interaction with the central government of Indonesia and try to answer why local authorities have different responses after implementing the indirect rule. This study mainly uses process tracking methods to test the interaction between the central and local governments in Indonesia. This study believes that trust is the fundamental factor that determines whether the local authorities and the central government can have a positive interaction. This reason will change the central government in the process of State-building. The study found that Aceh and Western Papua had different feedback to the central government. The key lies in whether they form a “trust” interaction, rather than whether they adopt an inclusive system (democratic system). This study concluded the feedback difference between Aceh and Western Papua as a classic case shows that, as a country, it is not only represented by the central government but also needs the “trust” of the central government and local authorities to form good governance, as well as national development effective.

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External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation

Cited by 10 publications

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The study of Chinese scholars in foreign policy analysis: an emerging research program

The study of Chinese scholars in foreign policy analysis: an emerging research program

Popular narratives versus Chinese history: Implications for understanding an emergent China

State-building and internal colonialism: A case study of the separatism in Aceh and West Papua, Indonesia

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