Authoritarian Commitment to Military Professionalism: How Security Alliances Reduce Coups and Coup Attempts Under Dictatorships

• In Event: International Implications of Coups, Military Purges, and Military Structure

Brief Overview

Our paper argues that security alliances help dictators and military elites lower the likelihood of military coup and coup attempts in an authoritarian setting. We use a game theoretic model and a new dataset to show support for our argument.

Authors

• Tolgahan Dilgin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Alexandra Chinchilla, University of Chicago