التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Steps-to-War Theory and Interstate Wars in the Middle East: Is State-Sponsored Terrorism Another Escalating Step? |
| المؤلفون: |
Khan, Akbar |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Asian and African Studies ; volume 56, issue 7, page 1521-1537 ; ISSN 0021-9096 1745-2538 |
| بيانات النشر: |
SAGE Publications |
| سنة النشر: |
2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Development, Geography, Planning and Development |
| الوصف: |
I employ Steps-to-War theory to analyze interstate wars in the Middle East by adding an additional escalating step: state sponsorship of non-state actors. Remarkably, however, the present scholarship completely overlooks a comprehensive assessment of the impacts and roles of state-sponsored terrorism on escalation of interstate militarized conflicts. None of the conflict studies focuses on state-sponsored terrorism and escalation of interstate conflict. This gap still exists despite a remarkable growth in the conflict literature. This article argues that the Steps-to-War thesis is a useful framework for understanding why states end up fighting wars by answering the questions: How does state-sponsored terrorism escalate interstate conflict? And how does each step intertwine with other steps and make war more likely? This paper’s primary argument is that state-sponsored terrorism increases the likelihood of war by providing another escalating step in conjunction with other steps and, therefore, aligns with Steps-to-War theory, and is one of the leading escalating factors. Ultimately, this article argues that this claim has a solid basis, and the Middle Eastern cases vividly demonstrate the escalatory ability of state-sponsored terrorism because state-sponsored terrorism interacts with and reinforces other escalating factors. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1177/0021909620970573 |
| الإتاحة: |
https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909620970573Test |
| حقوق: |
http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-licenseTest |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.E5477A98 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |
