Indirect Interventions in Civil Wars: The Use of States as Proxies in Military Interventions
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Title
Indirect Interventions in Civil Wars: The Use of States as Proxies in Military Interventions
Subject
Proxy interventions
arms trade
civil wars
military intervention
principal-agent theory
great powers
Description
Current research on motivational sources of military interventions in civilwars frequently assumes that states intervene due to direct interests in thecivil war country. However, this study argues that there exists a subset ofinterventions in which weaker powers intervene on behalf of interestswhich great powers hold vis-à-vis the civil war country. Using the logic ofprincipal-agent theory in combination with arms trade data allows one toidentify 14 civil wars which experienced the phenomenon of indirectmilitary interventions. This type of intervention features a weaker powerproviding troops for combat missions, whereas its major arms supplier isonly involved with indirect military support. The analysis is complementedwith two brief case studies on the Moroccan intervention in Zaire (1977) andthe Ugandan intervention in the Central African Republic (2009). Both casestudies corroborate expectations as deduced from the proxy interventionframework.
Creator
Klosek, Kamil
Source
Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 54 No. 4 (2019); 5-26
2788-2993
2788-2985
10.32422/mv.54.4
Publisher
Institute of International Relations Prague
Date
2019-12-01
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Relation
Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Research Articles
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Collection
Citation
Kamil Klosek, Indirect Interventions in Civil Wars: The Use of States as Proxies in Military Interventions, Institute of International Relations Prague, 2019, accessed November 6, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/3563