TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Mercier, Marion
AU  - Silve, Arthur
AU  - Tremblay-Auger, Benjamin
        TI  - Building Reputation: Proxy Wars and Transnational Identities
        PY  - 2023/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16340
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16340
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - reputation
KW  - proxy war
        ER  -