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Peace through Insecurity
Tenure and International Conflict
Giacomo Chiozza
Department of Political Science Duke University
H. E. Goemans
Department of Political Science Duke University
The literature on diversionary war has long argued that a leader's tenure considerations play an important role in international conflict behavior. However, for the diversionary use of force to be rational, international conflict must in turn affect the leader's tenure. A two-stage probit model on a new data set of all leaders between 1919 and 1992 is used to examine this reciprocal relationship between the probability of losing office and the probability of crisis initiation. Contrary to theories of the diversionary use of force, results show that an increase in the risk of losing office makes leaders less likely to initiate a crisis, and an increase in the risk of an international crisis makes leaders more likely to lose office. Results also suggest that democracies are overall less likely to initiate a crisis because of the domestic political insecurity of democratic leaders.
Key Words: diversionary war • international conflict • leaders' • tenure • crisis inititation
Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 47, No. 4,
443-467 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0022002703252975
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