The Limits of Diversion: Rethinking Internal and External Conflict

The diversionary hypothesis offers a powerful alternative to rationalist explanations of war based on the state as a unitary actor. Most recently, it has been used to explain why democratizing states are more likely to initiate the use of force. In the past two decades, however, quantitative tests h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fravel, Maris Taylor
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59524
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5831-8949