Escalation in international conflict management: A foreign policy perspective

Molly M. Melin

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2015, vol. 32, issue 1, 28-49

Abstract: Efforts to resolve interstate disputes are often characterized by repeated engagement and evolving strategies. What explains a state’s decision to continue conflict resolution efforts but escalate their management strategy? Drawing from foreign policy literature, I argue that third parties escalate policies in response to past failures, shifting conflict dynamics and their relationship with the disputants. Analysis of management efforts from 1946 to 2001 reveals that the changing nature of the conflict, policy failures and relationships between the third party and disputants are integral to understanding the management decision process, but the effects of these factors depend on the management history.

Keywords: Conflict management; intervention; mediation; militarized interstate disputes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/0738894214545033

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