External Interventions In Civil Wars

Author : Adam Lockyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351619912

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Foreign Intervention, Warfare and Civil Wars by Adam Lockyer Pdf

This book examines the impact of foreign intervention in the course and nature of warfare in civil wars. Throughout history, foreign intervention in civil wars has been the rule rather than the exception. The involvement of outside powers can have a dramatic impact on the course and nature of internal conflicts. Despite this, there has been little research which has sought to explain how foreign intervention influences the course of civil wars. This book seeks to rectify this gap. It examines the impact of foreign intervention on the warfare that characterises civil wars through by studying the cases of the Angolan and Afghan civil wars. It investigates how foreign resources affect the military power of the recipient belligerent, and examines how changes in the balance of capabilities influence the form of warfare that characterises a civil war. Warfare in civil wars is often highly fluid, with belligerents adapting their respective strategies in response to shifts in the balance of military capabilities. This book shows how the intervention of foreign powers can manipulate the balance of capabilities between the civil war belligerents and change the dominant form of warfare. The findings presented in this book offer key insights for policy-makers to navigate the increasing internationalization of civil wars around the globe. This book will be of much interest to students of civil wars, intra-state conflict, war and conflict studies, and security studies.

Author : Patrick M. Regan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0472088769

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Civil Wars and Foreign Powers by Patrick M. Regan Pdf

Explores how outside intervention affects the course of civil wars

Author : Stefan Wolff,Oya Dursun- Özkanca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134911424

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External Interventions in Civil Wars by Stefan Wolff,Oya Dursun- Özkanca Pdf

This volume brings together expert case studies on a range of experiences of third-party interventions in civil wars. The chapters consider the role of a variety of organisations, including the United Nations, NATO, the European Union, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the African Union, and the Organization of American States. Each case study features a presentation and analysis of empirical data in two dimensions: the organisation’s general capabilities to carry out intervention in civil wars and, specific to one particular intervention, the conflict context in which it happened. This serves two purposes. First, to offer insights into the dynamics of each individual case and helping us understand the specific outcome of an intervention effort, i.e., why did a mission (partially) succeed or fail. Second, it enables us to make real comparisons between the cases and draw policy-relevant conclusions about the conditions under which military, civilian and hybrid intervention missions are likely to succeed. This book was originally published as a special issue of Civil Wars.

Author : Richard Little
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004854074

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Intervention by Richard Little Pdf

Author : Jung-Yeop Woo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527500471

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Foreign Intervention in Civil Wars by Jung-Yeop Woo Pdf

This book identifies the conditions under which foreign countries intervene in civil wars, contending that we should consider four dimensions of civil war intervention. The first dimension is the civil war itself. The characteristics of the civil war itself are important determinants of a third party’s decision making regarding intervention. The second dimension is the characteristics of intervening states, and includes their capabilities and domestic political environments. The third is the relationship between the host country and the intervening country. These states’ formal alliances and the differences in military capability between the target country and the potential intervener have an impact on the decision making process. The fourth dimension is the relationship between the interveners. This framework of four dimensions proves critical in understanding foreign intervention in civil wars. Based on this framework, the model for the intervention mechanism can reflect reality better. By including the relationships between the interveners here, the book shows that it is important to distinguish between intervention on the side of the government and intervention on behalf of the opposition. Without distinguishing between these, it is impossible to consider the concepts of counter-intervention and bandwagoning intervention.

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : SIPRI Yearbook
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198787286

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SIPRI Yearbook 2016 by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Pdf

This edition of the 'SIPRI Yearbook' analyses developments in 2016 in security and conflicts; military spending and armaments; non-proliferation; arms control; and disarmament.

Author : Zachary C. Shirkey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317110408

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Joining the Fray by Zachary C. Shirkey Pdf

National leaders often worry that civil wars might spread, but also seem to have little grasp on which civil wars will in fact draw in other states. An ability to understand which civil wars are most likely to draw in outside powers and when this is likely to happen has important policy implications as well as simply answering a scholarly question. Joining the Fray takes existing explanations about which outside states are likely to intervene militarily in civil wars and adds to them explanations about when states join and why. Building on his earlier volume, Is this a Private Fight or Can Anybody Join?, Zachary C. Shirkey looks at how the decision to join a civil war can be intuitively understood as follows: given that remaining neutral was wise when a war began something must change in order for a country to change its beliefs about the benefits of fighting and join the war. This book studies what these changes are, focusing in particular on revealed information and commitment problems.

Author : Fotini Christia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139851756

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Alliance Formation in Civil Wars by Fotini Christia Pdf

Some of the most brutal and long-lasting civil wars of our time involve the rapid formation and disintegration of alliances among warring groups, as well as fractionalization within them. It would be natural to suppose that warring groups form alliances based on shared identity considerations - such as Christian groups allying with Christian groups - but this is not what we see. Two groups that identify themselves as bitter foes one day, on the basis of some identity narrative, might be allies the next day and vice versa. Nor is any group, however homogeneous, safe from internal fractionalization. Rather, looking closely at the civil wars in Afghanistan and Bosnia and testing against the broader universe of fifty-three cases of multiparty civil wars, Fotini Christia finds that the relative power distribution between and within various warring groups is the primary driving force behind alliance formation, alliance changes, group splits and internal group takeovers.

Author : Aysegul Aydin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804782944

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Foreign Powers and Intervention in Armed Conflicts by Aysegul Aydin Pdf

Intervention in armed conflicts is full of riddles that await attention from scholars and policymakers. This book argues that rethinking intervention—redefining what it is and why foreign powers take an interest in others' conflicts—is of critical importance to understanding how conflicts evolve over time with the entry and exit of external actors. It does this by building a new model of intervention that crosses the traditional boundaries between economics, international relations theory, and security studies, and places the economic interests and domestic political institutions of external states at the center of intervention decisions. Combining quantitative and qualitative evidence from both historical and contemporary conflicts, including interventions in both interstate conflicts and civil wars, it presents an in-depth discussion of a range of interventions—diplomatic, economic, and military—in a variety of international contexts, creating a comprehensive model for future research on the topic.

Author : Amalendu Misra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134141302

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Politics of Civil Wars by Amalendu Misra Pdf

Civil war is one of the critical issues of our time. Although intrastate in nature, it has a disproportionate and overwhelming effect on the overall peace and stability of contemporary international society. Organized around the themes of contested nationalism, violence, external intervention, post-conflict reconstruction, reconciliation and governance, Amalendu Misra investigates why civil wars have become so widespread and how can they be contained? Particularly noteworthy is its focus on the "cycle" of conflict, ranging as it does on the causes, conduct, and end of civil wars as well as on subsequent efforts to return post-conflict society to "normal" politics. Theoretically robust and empirically solid, this book clearly charts the course of contemporary civil wars using case studies from a variety of zones of conflict including Africa, Asia and Latin America to produce the most comprehensive guide to understanding civil wars in an interconnected and interdependent world.

Author : Paul Collier,Anke Hoeffler,Mn?s Söderbom
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civil war
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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On the Duration of Civil War by Paul Collier,Anke Hoeffler,Mn?s Söderbom Pdf

The duration of large-scale violent civil conflict increases substantially if the society is composed of a few large ethnic groups, if there is extensive forest cover, and if the conflict has commenced since 1980. None of these factors affect the initiation of conflict. And neither the duration nor the initiation of conflict is affected by initial inequality or political repression.

Author : Chiara Redaelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509940554

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Intervention in Civil Wars by Chiara Redaelli Pdf

This book investigates the extent to which traditional international law regulating foreign interventions in internal conflicts has been affected by the human rights paradigm. Since the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations, foreign armed interventions in internal conflicts have turned into a common practice. At first sight, it might seem that state practice has developed in a chaotic fashion, however on closer examination, specific patterns emerge. The book charts these patterns by examining the traditional doctrines of intervention and testing them against state practise. The book has two aims. Firstly, it seeks to clarify the current legal framework regulating interventions in internal conflicts. Secondly, it plots the emergence of new trends and investigates whether they are becoming part of positive international law. By taking this dual focus, it offers the first truly comprehensive examination of foreign interventions in internal conflicts.

Author : Ibrahim Elbadawi,Nicholas Sambanis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Civil war
ISBN : UCSD:31822028601813

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External Interventions and the Duration of Civil Wars by Ibrahim Elbadawi,Nicholas Sambanis Pdf

Previous studies have argued that longer civil wars have been caused by ethnically polarized societies, since rebel cohesion is easier and more lasting with polarization. This study shows that external interventions tend to reduce the cost of coordinating a rebellion (or of fighting a rebellion), thereby lengthening the duration of civil wars even in societies that are not ethnically polarized.

Author : Jose G. Montalvo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1396938350

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Ethnic Polarization and the Duration of Civil Wars by Jose G. Montalvo Pdf

Author : Tunde Zack-Williams
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745332218

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When the State Fails by Tunde Zack-Williams Pdf

Compared with Kosovo and Iraq, the recent Western intervention in Sierra Leone has been largely forgotten. When the State Fails rectifies this, providing a comprehensive and critical analysis of the intervention. The civil war in Sierra Leone began in 1991 and was declared officially over in 2002 after UK, UN, and regional African military intervention. Some claimed it as a case of successful humanitarian intervention. The authors in this collection provide an informed analysis of the impact of the intervention on democracy, development, and society in Sierra Leone. The authors take a particularly critical view of the imposition of neo-liberalism after the conflict. As NATO intervention in Libya shows the continued use of external force in internal conflicts, When the State Fails is a timely book for all students and scholars interested in Africa and the question of "humanitarian intervention."