The Proxy Paradox: Explaining (Lack of) Control Over State-Sponsored Proxy Armed Groups
This dissertation uncovers and answers three puzzles about how states that sponsor non-state armed groups abroad (proxies) control them. The central puzzle of state-proxy relations asks: why would a proxy defy the directives of its state sponsor and risk losing support? The second puzzle is that sta...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150912 |