@article{ref1,
title="Are military regimes really belligerent?",
journal="Journal of conflict resolution",
year="2018",
author="Kim, Nam Kyu",
volume="62",
number="6",
pages="1151-1178",
abstract="Does military rule make a state more belligerent internationally? Several studies have recently established that military autocracies are more likely than civilian autocracies to deploy and use military force in pursuit of foreign policy objectives. I argue that military regimes are more likely to resort to military force because they are located in more hostile security environments, and not because they are inherently aggressive. First, I show that rule by military institution is more likely to emerge and exist in states facing external territorial threats. Second, by examining the relationship between military autocracies and conflict initiation, I find that once I control for states' territorial threats, the statistical association between military regimes and conflict initiation disappears. Additionally, more evidence suggests that civilian dictatorships are more conflict-prone than their military counterparts when I account for unobserved dyad heterogeneity. The results are consistent across different measures of international conflict and authoritarian regimes.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-0027",
doi="10.1177/0022002716684626",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022002716684626"
}