Third-party intervention in secessions

Friedhelm Hentschel ()
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Friedhelm Hentschel: University of St. Gallen

Economics of Governance, 2022, vol. 23, issue 1, No 4, 65-82

Abstract: Abstract This paper presents and solves a model of ethnically motivated warfare which treats annexations as the explicit outcomes of secessions. An ethnic group within one country may want to engage in a secession in order to join its ethnic peers in the annexing country. The annexing country decides whether or not to support the separatist ethnic group in the conflict. I use this model to discuss how equilibrium behavior depends on economies of scale in the public good provision, ethnic heterogeneity, and sanctions. Among others, I find that sanctions can have the seemingly paradoxical effect of increasing conflict intensity

Keywords: Annexation; Conflict; Public good provision; Secession; Third-party intervention; D74; F51; H41; H56; H77 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s10101-022-00270-5

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