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

Identifier

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 25, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/3563

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