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Informationen zum Autor Michael P. Colaresi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. Karen Rasler is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University. William R. Thompson is Rogers Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Examining the 173 strategic rivalries operating over the past two centuries! Colaresi et al.analyze the nature of rivalries! the differences they make in the probability of conflict escalation and how they interact with serial crises! arms races! alliances and capability advantages. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
