%0 Report
        %A Mercier, Marion
%A Silve, Arthur
%A Tremblay-Auger, Benjamin
        %T Building Reputation: Proxy Wars and Transnational Identities
        %D 2023
        %8 2023 Jul
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16340
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16340
        %X In the context of a global security framework that mitigates interstate conflicts, nation-states establish a reputation for resolve by supporting foreign insurrections. Our theoretical predictions indicate that states with a greater number of co-ethnic groups abroad are more inclined to endorse foreign uprisings, resulting in higher political inclusion for such groups. With a dataset comprising over 280,000 ethnic group × sponsor state × target state × year observations, our analysis corroborates the role of reputation-building through co-ethnicity narratives as a determinant of sponsor state engagement. We argue that this mechanism engenders political concessions within target states, ultimately benefiting groups associated with reputed potential sponsors.
        %K reputation
%K proxy war