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" Facing Revolutionary Realities: Understanding High-Intensity State Sponsorship of Non-State Actors "
Kathryn Ann Lindquist
Mearsheimer, John J.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804829
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TL49665
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1978438685; 10635020
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Ostrum, Nicholas Robert
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Facing Revolutionary Realities: Understanding High-Intensity State Sponsorship of Non-State Actors\ Kathryn Ann LindquistMearsheimer, John J.
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The University of Chicago
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2017
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Ph.D.
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Political Science
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2017
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570
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Committee members: Albertus, Michael; Slater, Dan; Staniland, Paul
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-51940-2
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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.
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Peace Studies; International Relations; Political science
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Social sciences;Foreign policy;Ideology;Non-state actors;Revolution;Sponsorship;State sponsorship
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Mearsheimer, John J.
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Political ScienceThe University of Chicago
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