Payam Ghalehdar

Payam Ghalehdar

Payam Ghalehdar is a Research Fellow in the Centre for International Security at the Hertie School and the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His research interests span US foreign policy, grand strategy, military intervention, and the role of emotions in foreign policy decision-making. He is currently doing research on the role that US foreign policymakers’ emotional attachments to Europe played in the founding of NATO.

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6+1 Questions about The Origins of Overthrow: How Emotional Frustration Shapes US Regime Change Interventions

by Payam Ghalehdar | 30 October, 2021 | 6+1 Questions, Books, Security, US Foreign Policy

The United States has repeatedly used its military to overthrow foreign regimes – at least sixteen times from 1906 to 2011 – but these interventions seldom work out particularly well. So why does Washington continue to engage in violent regime change? The answer is that US leaders forcibly overthrow regimes to relieve emotional frustration.

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Payam Ghalehdar

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6+1 Questions about The Origins of Overthrow: How Emotional Frustration Shapes US Regime Change Interventions

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