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Roundtable 13-3 on Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War

November 5, 2021November 5, 2021 By Ryan Grauer, Jenna Jordan, Jon R. Lindsay, Lindsey O'Rourke, Joshua Rovner

The United States repeatedly tried to overthrow foreign governments during the Cold War.  More often than not, U.S. leaders chose covert regime change rather than overt military intervention.  Their persistence suggests that the story of the Cold War has as much to do with secret maneuvers as it does with nuclear strategy or conventional military…

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Roundtable 12-8 on In the Shadow of International Law: Secrecy and Regime Change in the Postwar World.

February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 By Austin Carson, Stephanie Carvin, Jon R. Lindsay, Ryan Scoville

Researching covert action is not easy.  States pursue such operations to influence events without revealing their handiwork.  Doing this successfully requires limiting the number of officials in the know, and enforcing secrecy measures to avoid leaving an incriminating paper trail. The documentary record is deliberately porous as a result, which complicates any effort to test…

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Article Review 81 on “You Can’t Always Get What You Want:  Why Foreign Imposed Regime Change Seldom Improves Interstate Relations.”

June 14, 2017June 11, 2017 By Barry Hashimoto

Using a cross-national data set covering the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the year 2000, Alexander Downes and Lindsey O’Rourke have produced a fascinating analysis of foreign-imposed regime change in international relations replete with new quantitative results. The question these two political scientists address is this: When a state tries to change the leadership…

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Policy Roundtable 1-7: Russia and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

March 26, 2017June 30, 2018 By Joshua Rovner, Jon R. Lindsay, Kimberly Marten, Lindsey A. O’Rourke

No one is sure what effect Russia had on the 2016 presidential election. The U.S. intelligence community and private sector cybersecurity firms are confident that Russian intelligence agencies sponsored efforts to steal and release information from the Democratic National Committee, and from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta. The stolen emails were mostly…

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Article Review 26 on “Forced to be Free? Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Rarely Leads to Democratization.”

February 14, 2014September 28, 2015 By H-Diplo

Will the international community be able to build consolidated democratic regimes in Afghanistan or Iraq in the context of decade-long military interventions in those nations? In “Forced to be Free?” Alexander Downes and Jonathan Monten argue persuasively that if foreign nations intervene in a state simply to impose a new leader on that state, democracy…

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Review Essay 9 on The Clash of Ideas in World Politics

July 27, 2012February 2, 2017 By Mark L. Haas

The Clash of Ideas in World Politics is an excellent book. It possesses a persuasive, detailed argument and compelling case study evidence that spans 500 years of diplomatic history. It will be of enduring interest to analysts of international relations. The book has numerous strengths, though three in particular stand out. First, the book reveals…

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