IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/fswixx/v35y2024i4p596-621.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

State survival vs leaders’ survival: how ethnic conflicts affect a state’s international alignment behavior

Author

Listed:
  • Azar Babayev
  • Kavus Abushov

Abstract

This article examines the underlying factors contributing to a more strategic and rational alignment behaviour exhibited by certain post-Soviet states compared to others in the region and beyond, despite the high stakes of domestic politics. Specifically, it focuses on Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova, suggesting their consistent, state-centric foreign policies arise from facing protracted ethnic conflicts threatening their territorial integrity. The notion of differential survival risks is proposed to explain this phenomenon. Consequently, resolving these conflicts becomes the paramount concern for these states’ leadership to avoid substantial territorial losses or even loss of sovereignty, relegating domestic issues to a secondary status.

Suggested Citation

  • Azar Babayev & Kavus Abushov, 2024. "State survival vs leaders’ survival: how ethnic conflicts affect a state’s international alignment behavior," Small Wars and Insurgencies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(4), pages 596-621, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fswixx:v:35:y:2024:i:4:p:596-621
    DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2024.2331262
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09592318.2024.2331262
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/09592318.2024.2331262?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:fswixx:v:35:y:2024:i:4:p:596-621. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/fswi .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.