Civil War Interventions and Their Benefits (eBook)

Unequal Return

Isaac M. Castellano (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
200 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8887-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Castellano argues that indirect interventions by external states into civil wars are the product of elite control over security making and that those interventions return few public goods to the general public they represent.

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The 2013 debate over whether the United States should intervene in the Syrian conflict raised important questions regarding the benefits countries receive when they intervene in civil wars, and how those benefits are distributed to the citizens of the intervening country. To address these lingering questions this book offers readers a comprehensive examination of the intervention process, examining the decision to intervene, what motivates states, and how their intervention shapes the conflict process. Most, importantly, the book examines how states benefit from their interventions and the distribution of intervenor benefits. Specially two questions are addressed: What are the benefits of intervention for intervening countries? And, how are benefits distributed within the intervenors society? Using evidence compiled from three case studies (El Salvador, The Philippines, and Sri Lanka), this book examines what motivated states to intervene, how they intervened, what they got from their intervention, and how the benefits of the intervention were distributed among the public. Arguing that foreign policy and security decision making is isolated from the general public, this book argues that citizens gain little from indirect interventions into civil wars.

Autor

Isaac Castellano teaches political science at Boise State University and the College of Western Idaho.

Inhalt

Chapter One: Introduction: The Syrian CaseChapter Two: The Benefits of Civil War InterventionChapter Three: El Salvador and Cold WarChapter Four: The Moro National Liberation Front and the Philippine Government Chapter Five: Sri Lanka and the Tamil Minority in the Eelam War I (1983-1987) Chapter Six: Conclusion: Benefits for the few?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.12.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 17 Illustrations including: - 8 Tables; - 9 Graphs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Civil War • El Salvador • foreign powers • International Relations • Outside intervention • security policy • Sri Lanka • The Philippines
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-8887-9 / 0739188879
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8887-3 / 9780739188873