Foreign-Imposed Regime Change and Interstate Relations

This chapter examines how foreign-imposed regime change affects relations between interveners and targets.¹ In doing so, the chapter investigates whether interveners get what they want out of regime change. States turn to this tool to replace leaders with divergent preferences and bring to power mor...

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Published inCatastrophic Success pp. 236 - 297
Main Author Downes, Alexander B
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press 15.12.2021
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Summary:This chapter examines how foreign-imposed regime change affects relations between interveners and targets.¹ In doing so, the chapter investigates whether interveners get what they want out of regime change. States turn to this tool to replace leaders with divergent preferences and bring to power more agreeable leaders who will act in accordance with the interveners’ interests. In short, they wish to change the intentions of rival states by changing the leaders (and sometimes the institutions) of those states. Installing leaders who share their preferences allows interveners to eliminate the prior conflict and stabilizes relations going forward. In other words, interveners
ISBN:9781501761157
1501761153
DOI:10.1515/9781501761164-009