War Makes the Regime: Regional Rebellions and Political Militarization Worldwide

Max Ferdinand Eibl; Steffen Hertog; Dan Slater

doi:10.1017/S0007123419000528

War Makes the Regime: Regional Rebellions and Political Militarization Worldwide

Max Ferdinand Eibl, Steffen Hertog, Dan Slater

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Abstract

War can make states, but can it also make regimes? This essay brings the growing literatures on authoritarianism and coups into conversation with the older research tradition analyzing the interplay between war and state formation. We offer a global empirical test of the argument that regional rebellions are especially likely to give rise to militarized authoritarian regimes. While the 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 our argument, quantitative tests confirm that regional rebellions make political militarization both more likely and more enduring, not simply in a single region, but more generally.

Original language	English
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Journal	BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Volume	0
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Early online date	13 Dec 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123419000528
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 13 Dec 2019

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war
military regime
coup
rebellion
civil war

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