Meddling! What is it Good For?

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Interventions by foreign powers in the affairs of other states are a common phenomenon in world affairs. However, despite much research on this topic, we still know relatively little about many common forms of intervention ranging from many key effects that they are presumed to have to the basics about when and why they occur. That prevents scholars from providing an empirical answer to the title of this panel as to many types of foreign interventions. This panel accordingly examines understudied effects of intervention (such as whether they increase post- intervention cooperation or protests), and understudied methods of intervention (such as partisan electoral interventions, great power on great power meddling, covert FIRC’s, and regime support interventions. We hope by the conclusion of this panel to be a bit closer to providing an answer to this question.

Sub Unit

• Division 20: Foreign Policy

Cosponsor

• Division 21: Conflict Processes

Individual Presentations

• Picking Your Friends: FIRCs and the Quality of Interstate Relations - Lindsey O'Rourke, Boston College; Alexander B. Downes, George Washington University

• Subversion Among the Great Powers in Historical Perspective - William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth College

• The Psychology of Intervention - Michael Poznansky, Naval War College

• A Protest Vote? Partisan Electoral Interventions and Electoral Revolutions - Dov H. Levin, University of Hong Kong; John Joseph Chin, Carnegie Mellon University

Chair

• Austin Carson University of Chicago

Discussant

• Alexander B. Downes George Washington University