Belkin United We Stand?

Divide-and-Conquer Politics and the Logic of International Hostility
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8378-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 171 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Global Politics

Argues that leaders sometimes promote international conflicts to keep their own military politically divided.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Belkin, Aaron

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. Regime Vulnerability and International Conflict
PART TWO: THEORY
2. Coup Risk and Military Division: Hostility within the Armed Forces and Regime Survival
3. A Theory of Counterbalancing as a Cause of International Conflict
PART THREE: DATA
4. Regime Vulnerability, Counterbalancing, and International Conflict during the Cold War: A Quantitative Analysis
Aaron Belkin and Evan Schofer
5. Regime Vulnerability as a Cause of Counterbalancing in Syria in the Early 1970s
6. When Dividing the Military Provides an Incentive for Conflict: Fragmented Military Forces and International Conflict in Shevardnadze’s Georgia
7. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
SUNY Series in Global Politics

Über Autor(innen)

Aaron Belkin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the coeditor (with Geoffrey Bateman) of Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Debating the Gay Ban in the Military.