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- Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations
- Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Political Survival and the Surrender of Sovereignty
- 2 Submission, Resistance, and War
- 3 Subnational Politics and Sovereignty in Post-Soviet Georgia
- 4 Mass Politics and the Surrender of Sovereignty
- 5 European Informal Empire in China, the Ottoman Empire, and Egypt
- 6 Cross-National Variation in Sovereignty and Hierarchy
- 7 Hierarchy, Political Order, and Great Power Politics
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - European Informal Empire in China, the Ottoman Empire, and Egypt
Hierarchy and Informal Empire in Historical Context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2020
- Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations
- Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Political Survival and the Surrender of Sovereignty
- 2 Submission, Resistance, and War
- 3 Subnational Politics and Sovereignty in Post-Soviet Georgia
- 4 Mass Politics and the Surrender of Sovereignty
- 5 European Informal Empire in China, the Ottoman Empire, and Egypt
- 6 Cross-National Variation in Sovereignty and Hierarchy
- 7 Hierarchy, Political Order, and Great Power Politics
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter provides a historical point of comparison for the contemporary cases explored earlier. By testing my argument in a different historical context, I am able to provide an additional assessment of the external validity of my theory. In this chapter I show that the European powers, especially the British, were able to establish stable forms of hierarchy and informal empire in China and the Ottoman Empire. In contrast, in Egypt they faced resistance, and these forms of hierarchy broke down, resulting in formal empire. The chapter demonstrates that these different outcomes can be explained by the different levels of contestation and rent-seeking in these states.
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- Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations , pp. 150 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020