To Dictate the Peace: Power, Strategy, and Success in Military Occupations
Journal: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park)
Year: 2014

The dissertation addresses the following question: why do some states win a war only to lose the occupation whereas other states can successfully impose their preferred outcome via the control of foreign territory? For example, compare the United States' failure in Iraq (2003-2008) to the Allied Powers' success in France (1815-1818). To explain this variation, I develop and test a principal-agent model in which I incorporate the occupied elite's costs of compliance and the occupier's strategies