eprintid: 33953 rev_number: 25 eprint_status: archive userid: 7716 dir: disk0/00/03/39/53 datestamp: 2023-11-13 13:37:15 lastmod: 2023-12-04 12:17:56 status_changed: 2023-11-13 13:37:15 type: doctoralThesis metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Heinkel, Jamison C. title: Regime Defense: Internal Threats and Explaining Regime Responses to Ethnonationalist Challengers subjects: ddc-320 divisions: i-180001 divisions: i-702000 adv_faculty: af-18 keywords: threat perception, ethnic conflict, balochistan, east pakistan, regime defense, comparative politics, international relations, south asia cterms_swd: Pakistan / Government cterms_swd: West Pakistan cterms_swd: Government cterms_swd: Conflict cterms_swd: Bengali cterms_swd: Burma cterms_swd: Mali abstract: Pakistan has failed to end an on-again, off-again rebellion by members of the ethnic Baloch since 1948. While Pakistan’s policies towards the Baloch have varied over the years, the continued use of repression and nonaccommodative responses are counterproductive and thus puzzling. The policies further motivate rebels and contribute to the cycle of violence while damaging the state’s reputation and economic progress. Why engage in a seemingly failing (ed) policy? How and why do Pakistan’s policies toward the minority ethnic Baloch vary with periods of peace (non-violence) and violence? In sum, what explains temporally varying regime security responses to ethnonationalists? Why do regimes peace respond peacefully to groups sometimes and violently toward the same group at other times? This study seeks to answer these overarching questions. date: 2023 id_scheme: DOI id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00033953 ppn_swb: 1871849063 own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-339530 date_accepted: 2023-07-05 advisor: HASH(0x55e0f7efeac8) language: eng bibsort: HEINKELJAMREGIMEDEFE20231107 full_text_status: public place_of_pub: Heidelberg citation: Heinkel, Jamison C. (2023) Regime Defense: Internal Threats and Explaining Regime Responses to Ethnonationalist Challengers. [Dissertation] document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/33953/1/Dissertation_SAI%20Heidelberg_2023_Heinkel.pdf