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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.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 mars 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501734847
Langue	English
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STATEBUILDING BY IMPOSITION

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

The Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University were inaugu rated in 1962 to bring to a wider public the results of signiﬁcant new research on modern and contemporary East Asia.

STATEBUILDING BY IMPOSITION Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines

REO MaTSUZaKI

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON

Cornell University Press gratefully acknowledges receipt of a subvention from the Ofﬁce of the Dean of Faculty, Trinity College, which aided in the publication of this book.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2019 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Matsuzaki, Reo, author. Title: Statebuilding by imposition : resistance and control in colonial Taiwan and the Philippines / Reo Matsuzaki. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019. | Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2018035595 (print) | LCCN 2018037765 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501734847 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501734854 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501734830 | ISBN 9781501734830 (cloth: alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Taiwan—Politics and government—18951945. | Philippines— Politics and government—18981935. | Nationbuilding—Taiwan—History. | Nationbuilding—Philippines—History. | Nationbuilding—Japan—History. | Nationbuilding—United States—History. Classiﬁcation: LCC DS799.716 (ebook) | LCC DS799.716 .M38 2019 (print) | DDC 951.249/04—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018035595

Cover photograph: Members of the Shanhua District ablebody corps promote “ﬁreprevention day,” as required by the Japanese colonial administration, 1926. Image from the Sun Jianghuai Documents, courtesy of the Archives of the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica.

For my wife, Katy, and my mother, Michiko

Contents

Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Glossary

1. Taiwan, the Philippines, and the Puzzle of Statebuilding 2. A Theory of Statebuilding by Imposition 3. ThePolizeistaat4. The Administered Community 5. The American Way 6. State Involution 7. From the Colonial Past to the Future of Statebuilding

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Acknowledgments

This book is a culmination of the support and advice that I received from my professors, colleagues, friends, and family over the past two decades. As an un dergraduate student at Georgetown University, I was inspired to make political science not just my major, but my profession, by Joseph Lepgold and Victor Cha. Daniel Nexon, my senior thesis adviser, introduced me to the body of liter ature on empires and statebuilding that shaped the direction of my intellectual inquiry in graduate school and beyond. I am also profoundly grateful for the mentorship I received from Mitch Kaneda. The genesis of this book lies in the research I conducted at MIT. This book would not exist if not for the tremendous support, and patience, given by Christopher Capozzola, Alexis Dudden, Roger Petersen, Kathleen Thelen, and, especially, Richard Samuels. The role my friends—particularly Nathan Cisneros, Kristin Fabbe, Jennifer Ferng, Llewelyn Hughes, Andrew Radin, Paul Staniland, Jessica TriskoDarden, and Adam Ziegfeld—played in the development of my project at this stage was enormous. I would above all like to thank Miriam Kings berg Kadia, who was extremely generous with her time, reading multiple drafts of my work at every stage of its development. My archival research in Japan, Taiwan, and various locations across the United States was made possible by funding provided by the Matsushita Interna tional Foundation, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. I am grateful to Nobuhiro Hiwatari, who arranged my afﬁliation with the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo, as I conducted preliminary research. Thereafter, it was through the spon sorship of Naoyuki Umemori that I was able to participate in a yearlong fellow ship at Waseda University’s Center for Global Political Economy. During this time, I was fortunate to meet Toyomi Asano and Meitetsu Haruyama, who kindly invited me to partake in their workshops and seminars and allowed me to test out my ideas in front of a Japanese academic audience. Michael Liu and Caroline Ts’ai graciously hosted me in Taiwan so that I could conduct research at the Archives of the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica. I would also like to thank the various librarians and support staff, and in particular Akiko Watanabe, who provided crucial logistical assistance. Namisan, chefowner of a splendid eatery in Waseda, which remains among the bestkept culinary secrets

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