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War Makes the Regime: Regional Rebellions and Political Militarization Worldwide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2019

Ferdinand Eibl Open the ORCID record for Ferdinand Eibl [Opens in a new window] ,
Steffen Hertog Open the ORCID record for Steffen Hertog [Opens in a new window]  and
Dan Slater
Ferdinand Eibl*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Economy, King's College London
Steffen Hertog
Affiliation:
Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science
Dan Slater
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: m.ferdinand.eibl@kcl.ac.uk
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Abstract

War can make states, but can it also make regimes? This article brings the growing literatures on authoritarianism and coups into conversation with the older research tradition analyzing the interplay between war and state formation. The authors offer a global empirical test of the argument that regional rebellions are especially likely to give rise to militarized authoritarian regimes. While this argument was initially developed in the context of Southeast Asia, the article deepens the original theory by furnishing a deductively grounded framework embedded in rational actor approaches in the coup and civil–military literatures. In support of the argument, quantitative tests confirm that regional rebellions make political militarization more likely not simply in a single region, but more generally.

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authoritarianismmilitary regimerebellioncivil war

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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , July 2021 , pp. 1002 - 1023
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