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Military Interventions in Civil Wars - The Role of Foreign Direct Investments and Arms Trade (Hardcover)
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Military Interventions in Civil Wars - The Role of Foreign Direct Investments and Arms Trade (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Development
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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.
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