Strategic Rivalries in World Politics Position, Space and Conflict Escalation

Name: Strategic Rivalries in World Politics Position, Space and Conflict Escalation
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ISBN: 9780521707619

ISBN-10: 0521707617

ISBN-13: 9780521707619

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael P. Colaresi, Karen Rasler, William R. Thompson

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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…

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List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 330
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

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.




About Strategic Rivalries



An introduction to strategic rivalries



Defining and identifying strategic rivalries



Describing strategic rivalries



The Dangers of Strategic Rivalries: Crisis Behavior and Escalation



Protracted conflict and crisis escalation



Serial crisis behavior and escalatory risks



Playing to Type: Spatial and Positional Issues in Strategic Rivalries



Contiguity, space and position in the major power subsystem



Initiating and escalating positional and spatial rivalries



Filling in Some Steps to War



Arms buildups and alliances in the steps-to-war theory



Contested territory and conflict escalation



Strategic Rivalries and Conflict



Inducements, facilitators, and suppressors