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Enze Han - Asymmetrical Neighbors, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Asymmetrical Neighbors

Borderland State Building between China and Southeast Asia

Av Enze Han

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Is the process of state building a unilateral, national venture, or is it something more collaborative, taking place in the interstices between adjoining countries? To answer this question, Asymmetrical Neighbors takes a comparative look at the state building process along China, Myanmar, and Thailand's common borderland area. It shows that the variations in state building among these neighboring countries are the result of an interactive process that occurs across national boundaries. Departing from existing approaches that look at such processes from the angle of singular, bounded territorial states, the book argues that a more fruitful method is to examine how state and nation building in one country can influence, and be influenced by, the same processes across borders. It argues that the success or failure of one country's state building is a process that extends beyond domestic factors such as war preparation, political institutions, and geographic and demographic variables. Rather, it shows that we should conceptualize state building as an interactive process heavily influenced by a "neighborhood effect." Furthermore, the book moves beyond the academic boundaries that divide arbitrarily China studies and Southeast Asian studies by providing an analysis that ties the state and nation building processes in China with those of Southeast Asia.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-10-10
  • Mått: 155 x 231 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 363 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Förlag: OUP USA
  • ISBN: 9780190060787
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Enze Han is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include ethnic politics in China, China's relations with Southeast Asia, and the politics of state formation in the borderland area between China, Myanmar, and Thailand. He is the author of Contestation and Adaptation: The Politics of National Identity in China.

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Han has given readers a timely, up-to-date study of state-building in the China-Myanmar-Thailand borderland zone. This text is especially interesting as the author provides a new understanding of this complex borderland in the modern era, a process that illustrates how deeply intertwined China is with its neighbors Myanmar and Thailand. Han's approach is a welcome shift from the traditional area studies method of treating each country separately, facilitated further by his distinction of state- and nation-building as different but interrelated processes most affected by cross-border dynamics, what Han calls the "neighborhood effect". Specialists will appreciate the author's use of sources in multiple languages, while general readers will welcome how this highly accessible account makes sense of a complex geographic, political, and ethnic context.

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