Leadership Charge and Foreign Policy Behavior in Black Africa

Abstract

The studies of linkage politics which have been popular in recent years reveal two features. First, they focus on the relationships between national attributes and various types of foreign policy behavior, particularly between domestic disorder and foreign conflict behaviors. Second, they are based on aggregate data. My primary purpose in this study is to test whether there is any correlation between these two dimensions. I will focus on one area of linkage politics which has not yet been explored: the relationship between change in political leadership and foreign policy behavior. More specifically, the following hypotheses will be tested