Military Interventions in Civil Wars - The Role of Foreign Direct Investments and Arms Trade (Hardcover)

This book examines the motivations of military interventions in civil wars, with a focus on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the arms trade. The book assumes a state-centric view of international relations, whereby states remain the dominant actors on the world stage. It breaks away from the conventional wisdom that military interventions for economic interests are a product of domestic corporate lobbying and instead argues that states intervene to protect (but not advance) existing corporate investments for national strategic interests. The work introduces new concepts of military interventions - proxy interventions and indirect interventions - which are determined by arms trade relationships between the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and recipient countries, and utilizes insights from principal-agent theory, whereby the permanent members of the UNSC delegate military interventions in civil wars to other countries. The book concludes by examining the transformative effect of FDI on the willingness of a state to intervene militarily in a civil war, focusing on the case of China in Sub-Saharan Africa. Provided that the current positive trends in FDI and arms trade persist, we are likely to see more and not fewer military interventions in the future. This book will be of much interest to students of civil wars, military interventions, security studies and International Relations.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Development
Release date:	September 2021
First published:	2022
Authors:	Kamil C. Klosek
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	158
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-75340-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Peace studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Armed conflict
LSN:	0-367-75340-5
Barcode:	9780367753405

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