Despite untold human suffering, widespread destruction, and far-reaching destabilization, the fires of many of the world's most violent civil wars continue to burn. How can we explain costly and stalemated, yet seemingly endless, conflicts? Wars Without End provides an answer. Bringing together battlefield bargaining dynamics, the escalatory pressures of interstate competition, and the systemic dimensions of geopolitical rivalry in civil wars, the book challenges traditional conceptions of "proxy war" by deriving new propositions about the strategic logics that motivate it. Combining…mehr
Despite untold human suffering, widespread destruction, and far-reaching destabilization, the fires of many of the world's most violent civil wars continue to burn. How can we explain costly and stalemated, yet seemingly endless, conflicts? Wars Without End provides an answer. Bringing together battlefield bargaining dynamics, the escalatory pressures of interstate competition, and the systemic dimensions of geopolitical rivalry in civil wars, the book challenges traditional conceptions of "proxy war" by deriving new propositions about the strategic logics that motivate it. Combining statistics with detailed case studies, it explains how protracted fighting within states is linked to enduring competition between them.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Noel Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His research explores external intervention in internal conflicts, limited war, and counterinsurgency. His work has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, and Political Science Research and Methods, among other venues, and has been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the United States Institute of Peace. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Acronyms List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. A Theory of Competitive Intervention in Civil War 3. External Meddling in Internal War: Tracking Global Trends, 1946-2009 4. Competitive Intervention and Protracted Civil War, 1946-2009 5. The Angolan MPLA-UNITA Civil War, 1975-1991 6. The Afghan Communist-Mujahideen Civil War, 1979-1992 7. Conclusion: Extensions, Implications, and Future Trajectories Appendices References
List of Acronyms List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. A Theory of Competitive Intervention in Civil War 3. External Meddling in Internal War: Tracking Global Trends, 1946-2009 4. Competitive Intervention and Protracted Civil War, 1946-2009 5. The Angolan MPLA-UNITA Civil War, 1975-1991 6. The Afghan Communist-Mujahideen Civil War, 1979-1992 7. Conclusion: Extensions, Implications, and Future Trajectories Appendices References
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