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SEAREG Thematic Sessions | Duke Center for International Development SEAREG Thematic Sessions - Duke Center for International Development

For all Southeast Asianist scholars, please consider submitting a paper proposal for SEAREG at UC-San Diego in December.

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👑Can foreign religious threats drive local state-building?

➡Focusing on late 16th-century Japan, M. Wang, @austin-mitchell.bsky.social & W. Yin show that areas with Catholic churches were more likely to be surveyed in response to missionary threats www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Foreign faith and rising state: An examination of state-building dynamics in late 16th-century Japan | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core Foreign faith and rising state: An examination of state-building dynamics in late 16th-century Japan

Centralized state-building occurs in response to local security threats.

In historical Japan, Catholic churches represented the threat of European empires.

New research at @psrm.bsky.social.

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