Ethnic preferences, domestic audiences and military coalition formation

Roman Hlatky and Joshua Landry
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Roman Hlatky: 3404University of North Texas, USA
Joshua Landry: 7618Oklahoma State University, USA

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2025, vol. 42, issue 1, 32-55

Abstract: Ethnically motivated domestic pressure can incentivize leaders to support co-ethnics via military cooperation during international crises. When a leader requires the support of an ethnic group to retain office, she may face pressure to support foreign co-ethnics involved in an international crisis. Supporting co-ethnics can bolster a leader domestically, but constraints on the executive limit a leader's ability to respond to ethnically motivated pressure. Using data on 257 international crises from 1949–2001 and two case studies, we find robust evidence for the conditional relationship between co-ethnicity, the domestic political salience of ethnicity, executive constraints, and the likelihood of military coalition formation.

Keywords: Ethnic politics; international crisis; international conflict; military coalitions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1177/07388942231220008

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