Abstract
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.
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