Foreign-Imposed Regime Change and the Survival of Leaders

In this chapter, I turn to a second implication of my argument for domestic politics in targets of regime change: the fate of leaders brought to power at the point of foreign bayonets. I argue that regime change—and particularly regime change that simply substitutes one leader for another while payi...

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Published inCatastrophic Success p. 157
Main Author Downes, Alexander B
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cornell University Press 15.12.2021
Subjects
coups
foreign-imposed regime change
imposed leaders
International Relations
irregular removal
protégés
regular removal
uprisings
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Summary:In this chapter, I turn to a second implication of my argument for domestic politics in targets of regime change: the fate of leaders brought to power at the point of foreign bayonets. I argue that regime change—and particularly regime change that simply substitutes one leader for another while paying little attention to supporting institutions—increases the likelihood that the leader so installed will be removed from power by force or the threat of force, what H. E. Goemans refers to as irregular methods. These leadership regime changes should also reduce the risk of regular removal, that is, departures
ISBN:9781501761157
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9781501761140
DOI:10.7591/cornell/9781501761140.003.0005