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

• Autore: Downes Alexander B. <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 pages)
• Disciplina: 321.09
• Soggetto topico: Regime change; Intervention (International law); International relations
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Catastrophic Success
• ISBN: 1-5017-6114-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910554256203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cornell studies in security affairs.; Cornell scholarship online.