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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554256203321

Autore

Downes Alexander B. <1969->

Titolo

Catastrophic success : why foreign-imposed regime change goes wrong / / Alexander B. Downes [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022

ISBN

1-5017-6114-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 pages)

Collana

Cornell studies in security affairs

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

321.09

Soggetti

Regime change

Intervention (International law)

International relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Defining Foreign-Imposed Regime Change -- 2. Theorizing the Effects of Foreign-Imposed Regime Change -- 3. Foreign-Imposed Regime Change and Civil War -- 4. Foreign-Imposed Regime Change and the Survival of Leaders -- 5. Foreign-Imposed Regime Change and Interstate Relations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Alexander B. Downes compiles all instances of regime change around the world over the past two centuries. Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes shows that regime change increases the likelihood of civil war and violent leader removal in target states and fails to reduce the probability of conflict between intervening states and their targets. As Downes demonstrates, when a state confronts an obstinate or dangerous adversary, the lure of toppling its government and establishing a friendly administration is strong. The historical record, however, shows that foreign-imposed regime change is, in the long term, neither cheap, easy, nor consistently successful.