The Foreign Politics of State-Making: Endogenous Power Shifts and the Logic of External Influence
Conference paper, 83rd Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL
Presented a two-period, three-player model of foreign interference in early state-making, in which a sponsor’s strategic empowerment of a ruler or an elite opens predictable windows of opportunity and can leave the state weaker than if the sponsor had stayed out.