Suchergebnisse

1. Introduction -- 2. Rethinking state failure -- 3. International order, capabilities and ontological security : an interpretive framework -- 4. British intervention in Egypt, 1882 -- 5. United States' intervention in South Vietnam, 1965 -- 6. French intervention in Ivory Coast, 2002 -- 7. Conclusions.

This book is a comparative history of the conditions under which great powers and their close allies care enough about disorder from the periphery to mount costly armed interventions to reverse what they deem to be state 'failure'.

"The East and Southeast Asian region is of immense economic, strategic and cultural significance to Australia. It has also been important in defining Australia's national identity, and is the origin of many of Australia's immigrants. Australians, therefore, need to have a good understanding of their northern neighbours and to think about the region ... This is a book for all Australians who seek a well-informed view of the country's neighbours in East and Southeast Asia"--P. [4] of cover