Michael P. Colaresi

Strategic Rivalries in World Politics (eBook, PDF)

Position, Space and Conflict Escalation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

International conflict is neither random nor inexplicable. It is highly structured by antagonisms between a relatively small set of states that regard each other as rivals. Examining the 173 strategic rivalries in operation throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book identifies the differences rivalries make in the probability of conflict escalation and analyzes how they interact with serial crises, arms races, alliances and capability advantages. The authors distinguish between rivalries concerning territorial disagreement (space) and rivalries concerning status and influence (position) and show how each leads to markedly different patterns of conflict escalation. They argue that rivals are more likely to engage in international conflict with their antagonists than non-rival pairs of states and conclude with an assessment of whether we can expect democratic peace, economic development and economic interdependence to constrain rivalry-induced conflict.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511373114
• Artikelnr.: 38205519

Autorenporträt

Michael P. Colaresi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. About Strategic Rivalries: 1. An introduction to strategic
rivalries; 2. Defining and identifying strategic rivalries in world
politics; 3. Describing strategic rivalries; Part II. The Dangers of
Strategic Rivalries: Crisis Behavior and Escalation: 4. Protracted conflict
and crisis escalation; 5. Serial crisis behavior and escalating risks; Part
III. Playing to Type: Spatial and Positional Issues in Strategic Rivalries:
6. Contiguity, space and position in the major power subsystem; 7.
Initiating and escalating positional and spatial rivalries; Part IV.
Filling in Some Steps to War: 8. Arms buildups and alliances in the
steps-to-war theory; 9. Contested territory and conflict escalation; Part
V. Strategic Rivalries and Conflict: 10. Inducements, facilitators, and
suppressors.