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Ethnic preferences, domestic audiences and military coalition formation

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  • Roman Hlatky

    (3404University of North Texas, USA)

  • Joshua Landry

    (7618Oklahoma State University, USA)

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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.

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  • Roman Hlatky & Joshua Landry, 2025. "Ethnic preferences, domestic audiences and military coalition formation," Conflict Management and Peace Science, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 42(1), pages 32-55, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:compsc:v:42:y:2025:i:1:p:32-55
    DOI: 10.1177/07388942231220008
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