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International Migration and Military Intervention in Civil War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

Vincenzo Bove Open the ORCID record for Vincenzo Bove [Opens in a new window]  and
Tobias Böhmelt
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Abstract

Which factors make it more likely that states militarily intervene in ongoing intrastate wars? We develop the argument that migrants, i.e., (1) people coming from the civil-war state living in a potential intervener state (immigrants) and (2) those living in the country at war who stem from the third party (emigrants), influence the decision of external states to intervene in civil wars. Our theoretical framework is thus based on a joint focus on domestic-level determinants in a civil-war country and in foreign states. Primarily based on an accountability rationale, we also claim that the third-party’s regime type has an intervening influence. Using quantitative methods, our empirical results generally support the theory, although there is only weak evidence for the intervening influence of a third party’s level of democracy.

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Political Science Research and Methods , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 2019 , pp. 271 - 287
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© The European Political Science Association 2017 

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Vincenzo Bove is a Reader in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL (v.bove@warwick.ac.uk). Tobias Böhmelt is a Reader in the Department of Government, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ; and a Research Fellow of the Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zurich, Haldeneggsteig 4, 8092 Zurich (tbohmelt@essex.ac.uk). The authors thank the journal’s editor, Vera Töger, four anonymous reviewers and participants of the 2 EPEC Workshop in Political Economy for helpful comments that helped to improve the article. To view supplementary material for this article, please visit https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/PSRM

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