عنوان

Facing Revolutionary Realities: Understanding High-Intensity State Sponsorship of Non-State Actors

Number

TL49665

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Facing Revolutionary Realities: Understanding High-Intensity State Sponsorship of Non-State Actors

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Kathryn Ann Lindquist

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Mearsheimer, John J.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

570

Text of Note

Committee members: Albertus, Michael; Slater, Dan; Staniland, Paul

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-51940-2

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Political Science

Body granting the degree

The University of Chicago

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

States that sponsor non-state armed actors as a central pillar of their foreign policy have long had an out-sized impact on global affairs, but academic research has rarely studied this distinct pattern of state sponsorship. This dissertation asks the question, "Under what conditions do states adopt a policy of high-intensity sponsorship of armed non-state actors (HISS)?" The project identifies HISS states as those that have sponsored a) numerous foreign groups b) groups outside the state's region and c) highly terroristic groups in particular. I argue that HISS constitutes a unique pattern of state sponsorship that is associated with a distinct set of causal factors and mechanisms which are, as yet, not well understood in the academic literature. This dissertation offers a novel account of HISS adoption, the Revolutionary Realities theory. Drawing from the international relations literature on individual state-group linkages and the comparative politics literature on political revolutions, I contend that three, jointly necessary and mutually-reinforcing causal factors lead to state adoption of HISS. These are: non-institutionalized regime entry to power, the espousal of an international revolutionary ideology, and high structural barriers to conventional military operations abroad against rivals.

Peace Studies; International Relations; Political science

Subject Term

Social sciences;Foreign policy;Ideology;Non-state actors;Revolution;Sponsorship;State sponsorship

Ostrum, Nicholas Robert

Mearsheimer, John J.

Subdivision

Political Science

The University of Chicago

Call Number

1978438685; 10635020

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[Thesis]

276903

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