This thesis examined the common idea that the CIA is a regime change advocate by testing the merits of two competing political science theories, one focused on internal (endogenous) influences within CIA and one focused on external (exogenous) pressures on CIA emanating from the…
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Since the US overthrow of regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 and 2003, foreign-imposed regime change has received a great deal of attention and analysis. Regime change is an absolute means of resolving an interstate conflict or commitment problem. Given this, why do states …
What contributes to democracy's survival after initial elections? Scholarship on democratization and regime change suggests several factors conducive to democracy's survival, including higher levels of socioeconomic development, stronger parliaments and weaker presidents, and a …
The ongoing Arab Spring, like the demise of colonial rule in Africa and the civil wars in Latin America before it, has shifted attention yet again to the question of why some regimes fail and others do not. This paper seeks to discover the conditions under which regime change oc…
This dissertation examines why some governments are more vulnerable to international overthrow attempts than others. Drawing on insights from the comparative politics literature, I argue that a government's vulnerability to insurgency-, economic sanctions-, or coup-based overthr…
This dissertation investigates cases of authoritarian regime breakdown and persistence in the Arab world, a region where political regimes are typically considered to exhibit exceptional durability. Chapter two presents a deductive model linking variations in opposition movement…
This dissertation examines regime interventions, those military interventions explicitly directed at regime change in a target state. I look at all regime interventions occurring between 1815 and 2001 and argue that these interventions are best understood as directed at broad re…
This research concerns the massive and protracted series of protest events that took place in Indonesia in 1997 and 1998. Triggered by a deep economic crisis, these protest events transformed Indonesia into the third largest democratic country in the world. The purposes of the r…
There have been some 163 foreign occupations since 1900. In many cases, military occupations have led to bloody and protracted resistance, while in most cases occupiers faced little resistance at all. This dissertation seeks to answer the puzzle: under what conditions do foreign…
This thesis will examine the interdependent relationship of drugs, border security, and sovereignty following the 1991 collapse of communism in Russia and the 2001 US-led overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Regime changes, particularly in Russia, led to a sharp decline in s…
In contrasting the political trajectories of two post-Soviet Central Asian states this study addresses one of the defining questions of political science: what factors shape regime change? Despite their shared seven decades of Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has, since communism's colla…