The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another, billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local proxies or agents, through what Eli Berman and David A. Lake call a strategy of "indirect control, " has always been a central tool of foreign policy. Understanding how countries motivate local allies to act in sometimes costly ways, and when and how...
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