Leadership Turnover, Political Institutions and Foreign Policy Realignment

• In Event: Foreign Policy in East Asia

Brief Overview

This paper argues that leadership turnover in anocracies is more likely to result in foreign policy realignment than in both democracies and autocracies. We find supportive evidence by studying countries' foreign policies towards China.

Authors

• Wen Zha, China Foreign Affairs University

• Xiang Li, Central European University