POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Idi Amin
15 Dec 2019
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Omnibalancing: omnibalancing considers internal and external threats, for authoritarian regimes in the global south, the domestic political more imminent, more unpredictable- environment is as least as unstable and dangerous as the international one. Ethiopia, egypt, applicable theory: threats by external factors may not be that immediate interstate wars costly small countries can"t afford : for authoritarian regimes especially. Comparison: balance of power: states align with secondary adversaries to focus on primary threats to deal with more primary. Us and britain being allies: omnibalancing: same holds true, but secondary threats are often other states. Primary threats are often domestic: authoritarian leaders want power so they may protect themselves at the expense of state interests. They want to stay in power- they want to stay alive. More accurately, it"s the leader who wants that. Threat of being overthrown in a coup d"etat, most of the time they get shot.
