Third World states as intervenors in ethnic conflicts: Implications for regional and international security

Khosla, Deepa

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“…This intuition seems to be confirmed by the empirical evidence. Consistently, studies in the literature and that domestic civil conflict can increase the prospect for spillover and regional spread into international conflict (Davis & Moore, 1997;Lake & Rothchild, 1998;Khosla, 1999;Saideman & Ayers, 2000).…”

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The Internationalization of Terrorist Campaigns

Bapat

2007

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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Many scholars have examined terrorism as a conflict between a state and a nonstate actor. However, during terrorist campaigns, terrorists often seek sanctuary from target attacks by crossing into foreign host states. This action effectively transforms the conflict from a purely domestic contest into an international issue. This paper explores why terrorist organizations make the choice to internationalize conflicts by adopting a foreign host. Further, this paper examines why host governments accept terrorist organizations. To address these questions, this research develops a simple game theoretic model to explain the decision to internationalize terrorism. The paper concludes with an empirical test of the model's predictions.

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The Internationalization of Terrorist Campaigns

Bapat

2007

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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“…Other variables often considered in research on civil war intervention come from a perspective that emphasizes the importance of cultural and ethnic affinities, arguing that intervention is more likely when sectarian or ethnic ties link civil war parties with potential interveners, when interveners and civil war states are connected by a former colonial relationship, when they share a common regime type like democracy, or when the nature of the civil war focuses on identity politics (Heraclides 1990; Carment, James, and Rowlands 1997; Khosla 1999; Saideman 2001; Cetinyan 2002; Carment and James 2004; Carment, James, and Taydas 2006). These variables are typically based on the Minorities at Risk (MAR) data, which only examine ethnic conflicts, only treat contiguous states as potential interveners, and offer a limited coverage of geopolitical issues.…”

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Civil War Intervention and the Problem of Iraq1

Biddle

Friedman²,

Long

2012

International Studies Quarterly

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Outside intervention in civil warfare is important for humanitarian, theoretical, and practical policy reasons-since 2006, much of the debate over the war in Iraq has turned on the danger of external intervention if the United States were to withdraw. Yet, the literature on intervention has been compartmented in ways that have made it theoretically incomplete and unsuitable as a guide to policy. We therefore integrate and expand upon the theoretical and empirical work on intervention and apply the results to the policy debate over the US presence in Iraq using a Monte Carlo simulation to build upon the dyadic results of probit analysis. We find that Iraq is, in fact, a significantly intervention-prone conflict in an empirical context; the prospect of a wider, regional war in the event that violence returns in the aftermath of US withdrawal cannot safely be ignored.

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“…Es zeigt sich jedoch, dass die Ausbreitung oft durch Interventionen von Staaten aus der Region geschieht: Wie Khosla ( 1999 ) gezeigt hat, intervenieren regionale Staaten wesentlich häufi ger in interne Konfl ikte als Großmächte oder andere extra-regionale Akteure. Dabei bevorzugen Großmächte und nicht angrenzende Staaten diplomatische und ökonomische Mittel, um in einen Konfl ikt einzugreifen, während 60 Prozent aller Interventionen durch Nachbarstaaten oder regionale Großmächte militärischer Art sind.…”

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Dangerous Davids. How weak states threaten their neighbors

Lambach

2009

ZS Aussen Sicherh. Polit.

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Zusammenfassung: Seit einiger Zeit werden fragile und zerfallene Staaten als Bedrohung der internationalen Sicherheit angesehen. Dabei bleibt jedoch unklar, ob diese Staaten auch die Sicherheit ihrer Nachbarländer bedrohen. Während Ansätze aus der Realistischen Schule diese Frage eher verneinen, lässt sich auch eine gegenteilige Antwort geben, die in der Tendenz von Bürgerkriegen zur geographischen Ausweitung eine Gefahr für die Region sieht. Der Artikel kontrastiert diese beiden Perspektiven und entwickelt daraus Hypothesen, wie sich Staaten in der Nachbarschaft eines fragilen Staates diesem gegenüber verhalten werden. Schlüsselwörter: Staatszerfall · Sicherheitstheorie · Regionale Sicherheit · Konfl ikteskalation Dangerous Davids. How weak states threaten their neighborsAbstract: For some time, fragile and failed states are presented as threats to international security. What remains unclear is whether these states also represent a threat to the security of their immediate neighbors. While the Realist School would tend to answer this question in the negative, an alternative viewpoint can plausibly be constructed by reference to the tendency of civil wars to spill across borders. This article contrast these two perspectives and develops hypotheses about the behavior of states that are in the vicinity of a fragile state.

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Third World states as intervenors in ethnic conflicts: Implications for regional and international security

Cited by 23 publications

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The Internationalization of Terrorist Campaigns

The Internationalization of Terrorist Campaigns

Civil War Intervention and the Problem of Iraq1

Dangerous Davids. How weak states threaten their neighbors

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