Triadic Coercion - Israel′s Targeting of States That Host Nonstate Actors

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-17184-7
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare

In the post–Cold War era, states increasingly find themselves in conflicts with nonstate actors. Finding it difficult to fight these challenging opponents directly, many governments instead target states that harbor or aid nonstate actors, using threats and punishment to coerce host states into stopping those groups.

Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili investigate this strategy, which they term triadic coercion. They explain why states pursue triadic coercion, evaluate the conditions under which it succeeds, and demonstrate their arguments across seventy years of Israeli history. This rich analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict, supplemented with insights from India and Turkey, yields surprising findings. Traditional discussions of interstate conflict assume that the greater a state’s power compared to its opponent, the more successful its coercion. Turning that logic on its head, Pearlman and Atzili show that this strategy can be more effective against a strong host state than a weak one because host regimes need internal cohesion and institutional capacity to move against nonstate actors. If triadic coercion is thus likely to fail against weak regimes, why do states nevertheless employ it against them? Pearlman and Atzili’s investigation of Israeli decision-making points to strategic culture. A state’s system of beliefs, values, and institutionalized practices can encourage coercion as a necessary response, and host states as appropriate targets, even when that policy is prone to backfire. A significant contribution to scholarship on deterrence, asymmetric conflict, and strategic culture, Triadic Coercion illuminates an evolving feature of the international security landscape, with critical lessons for interrogating engrained assumptions that distort strategic thinking.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pearlman, Wendy

Atzili, Boaz

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Außenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Understanding Triadic Coercion
2. Israel’s Use of Triadic Coercion: Sources and Historical Evolution
3. Egypt since 1949: Triadic Coercion from Raids to Peace
4. Syria since 1949: Triadic Coercion from Coups to Revolution
5. Israel and the Palestinian Authority since 1993: Strategic Culture in Asymmetric Conflict
6. Lebanon Before and since 1965: Strategic Culture at War
7. Triadic Coercion Beyond the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wendy Pearlman is Martin and Patricia Koldyke Outstanding Teaching Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. She is the author of Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada (2003), Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement (2011), and We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria (2017).

Boaz Atzili is associate professor in the School of International Service, American University. He is the author of Good Fences Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and International Conflict (2012) and coeditor of Territorial Designs and International Politics: Inside-Out and Outside-In (2018).