State Support for Rebels and Interstate Bargaining

Qiu, Xiaoyan (Christy)

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State Support for Rebels and Interstate Bargaining

dc.contributor.author	Qiu, Xiaoyan (Christy)
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dc.date.accessioned	2025-04-23T13:05:47Z
dc.date.available	2025-04-23T13:05:47Z
dc.date.issued	2022-10-20
dc.description.abstract	Since the end of World War II, leaders have frequently supported rebel groups in other countries as a coercive strategy in international disputes. However, the strategic rationale by which rebel groups gain international support is non-obvious. Many recipient groups are too weak to viably win and are hostile to the sponsoring state's goals. Using a formal model, I explain that the fundamental objective of transnational rebel support is to gain bargaining leverage against a rival state by depleting its resources to counter internal and external challenges. This subversive effect provides a sufficient incentive for sponsoring the rebels even when favourable conditions suggested by previous studies are absent. Sponsoring rebels is attractive even if conventional warfare is not comparatively costly and even if rebel and sponsor preferences diverge. Moreover, given the goal of destabilizing rival regimes, potential sponsors prefer to support weaker rebel groups and provide more support to them.
dc.description.peerreviewed	yes
dc.description.status	Published
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dc.identifier.citation	Qiu, X. (2022). State support for rebels and interstate bargaining. American Journal of Political Science, 66(4), 993-1007. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12694.
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12694
dc.identifier.issn	1540-5907
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3748
dc.issue.number	4
dc.journal.title	American Journal of Political Science
dc.language.iso	en
dc.page.final	1007
dc.page.initial	993
dc.page.total	15
dc.publisher	Wiley
dc.relation.department	International Relations
dc.relation.entity	IE University
dc.relation.school	IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
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dc.title	State Support for Rebels and Interstate Bargaining
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dc.volume.number	66
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