Proxy Wars

Suppressing Violence through Local Agents
Herausgeber: Lake, David A.; Berman, Eli

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Produktbeschreibung

The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local proxies or agents, through what Eli Berman and David A. Lake call a strategy of "indirect control," has always been a central tool of foreign policy...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 228mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781501733062
• ISBN-10: 1501733060
• Artikelnr.: 52822535

Autorenporträt

edited by Eli Berman and David A. Lake

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Principals, Agents, and Indirect Foreign Policies
1. South Korea, 1950-53: Exogenous Realignment of Preferences
2. Denmark, 1940-45: Armed Resistance and Agency Slippage in Germany's
Model Protectorate
3. Colombia, 1990-2010: Cooperation in the War on Drugs
4. Lebanon and Gaza, 1975-2017: Israel's Extremes of Interest Alignment
5. El Salvador, 1979-92: Revisiting Success
6. Pakistan, 2001-11: Washington's Small Stick
7. Not Dark Yet: The Israel-PA Principal-Agent Relationship, 1993-2017
8. Yemen, 2001-11: Building on Unstable Ground
9. Iraq, 2003-2011: Principal Failure
10. Policy Implications for the United States
Conclusion
References
About the Contributors
Index