Territorial Issue Salience: Escalation, Resources, and Ethnicity
Description:
Conflict over territory is a major concern to scholars and policymakers, and much of conflict over territory is driven by the issues that make territory more or less attractive, or salient, to states. I examine the impact that tangible and intangible issue salience has on territorial claims, and in particular, how it drives both conflict and conflict escalation. I argue that intangible issues, such as ethnic or religious kin, plays a greater role in driving more severe forms of armed conflict a…
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Date:
August 2017
Creator:
Macaulay, Christopher Cody
Partner:
UNT Libraries