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Zusatztext "In a decade that includes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the NATO action in Libya it behooves us to understand when interventions are likely! when they make sense! and when they might work. This book puts on firmer foundation answers to those questions and should inform policy and future scholarship alike." Informationen zum Autor Aysegul Aydin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book suggests a political economic model of intervention and explains intervention decisions in civil wars and interstate conflicts with the economic interests of interveners.
