TY - BOOK AU - Matsuzaki,Reo TI - Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines T2 - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University SN - 9781501734847 AV - DS799.716 .M38 2019 U1 - 951.249/04 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Nation-building KW - Japan KW - History KW - Philippines KW - Taiwan KW - United States KW - Asian Studies KW - International Studies KW - Political Science & Political History KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory KW - bisacsh KW - statebuilding, Taiwan, Philippines, colonial, Japan, United States, democracy N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Transliteration --; Glossary --; 1. Taiwan, the Philippines, and the Puzzle of Statebuilding --; 2. A Theory of Statebuilding by Imposition --; 3. The Polizeistaat --; 4. The Administered Community --; 5. The American Way --; 6. State Involution --; 7. From the Colonial Past to the Future of Statebuilding --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - How do modern states emerge from the turmoil of undergoverned spaces? This is the question Reo Matsuzaki ponders in Statebuilding by Imposition. Comparing Taiwan and the Philippines under the colonial rule of Japan and the United States, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he shows similar situations produce different outcomes and yet lead us to one conclusion.Contemporary statebuilding efforts by the US and the UN start from the premise that strong states can and should be constructed through the establishment of representative government institutions, a liberalized economy, and laws that protect private property and advance personal liberties. But when statebuilding runs into widespread popular resistance, as it did in both Taiwan the Philippines, statebuilding success depends on reconfiguring the very fabric of society, embracing local elites rather than the broad population, and giving elites the power to discipline the people. In Taiwan under Japanese rule, local elites behaved as obedient and effective intermediaries and contributed to government authority; in the Philippines under US rule, they became the very cause of the state's weakness by aggrandizing wealth, corrupting the bureaucracy, and obstructing policy enforcement. As Statebuilding by Imposition details, Taiwanese and Filipino history teaches us that the imposition of democracy is no guarantee of success when forming a new state and that illiberal actions may actually be more effective. Matsuzaki's controversial political history forces us to question whether statebuilding, given what it would take for this to result in the construction of a strong state, is the best way to address undergoverned spaces in the world today UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501734847 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501734847 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501734847/original ER -