عنوان

The Determinants of Foreign Policy Volatility

Number

TL50013

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

The Determinants of Foreign Policy Volatility

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Eleonora Mattiacci

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Braumoeller, Bear F.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The Ohio State University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

265

Text of Note

Committee members: Box-Steffensmeier, Janet; Braumoeller, Bear; Keele, Luke; Nooruddin, Irfan

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-438-88424-3

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Political Science

Body granting the degree

The Ohio State University

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

To the casual observer of international relations, countries like the United States appear to always neatly classify other countries as either allies (e.g., Canada) or enemies (Iran). Yet there exists a sizable subset of states-India and Pakistan among them-whose relations are volatile, in that their foreign policy toward one another shifts inconsistently between episodes of intense cooperation and episodes of bitter violence. Volatile relations are dangerous, because these inconsistent shifts increase states' uncertainty over their opponent's intentions, thus increasing the likelihood of violence. What are the determinants of volatility in foreign policy? I advance a theory of volatility that integrates dynamics at the domestic and at the international level. I argue that volatility is the outcome of the interaction between the presence of domestic institutions that respond to multiple and heterogeneous interests and a state's relative power preponderance in the international system. I posit two distinct causal mechanism as operating at the two levels: a redistributive one at the domestic level and an availability one at the international level. I test this theory using originally collected event data on the interactions between rivals in the years 1948-2009.

International Relations; Political science

Subject Term

Social sciences;Domestic constituency;Event data;Foreign policy;Military power;Time series

Nayak, Jwalit J.

Braumoeller, Bear F.

Subdivision

Political Science

The Ohio State University

Call Number

2194872124; 13840216

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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