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You Can't Always Get What You Want: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Seldom Improves Interstate Relations
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In recent decades, the United States has attempted to overthrow the regimes of several other countries in the hopes that the new regimes will be friendly toward Washington. Does foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) succeed in making target states more accommodating to interveners’ interests? A new dataset and an analysis of foreign interventions in the Congo Wars show that FIRC damages relations between intervener and target state more often than it improves them.
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Alexander B. Downes and Lindsey A. O'Rourke. “You Can't Always Get What You Want: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Seldom Improves Interstate Relations.” Quarterly Journal: International Security, vol. 41. no. 2. (Fall 2016): 43–89 .
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