| Joining the Fray: Outside Military Intervention in Civil Wars Contributor(s): Shirkey, Zachary C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138261440 ISBN-13: 9781138261440 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $63.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Military Science - Political Science | Geopolitics - History | Military - Strategy |
| Dewey: 355.021 |
| Series: Military Strategy and Operational Art |
| Physical Information: 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |