Clients, Rivals, and Rogues

Why Great Powers Intervene in Revolutionary Civil Wars

AvErin K. Jenne,Milos Popovic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Why do great powers intervene militarily in revolutionary civil wars? This pivotal question in international relations is answered though a new theory of security hierarchies that emphasizes the role of clients, rivals and rogues in world politics. Employing a mixed-methods approach, integrating statistical analysis with comprehensive case studies of Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria, this book demonstrates that great power interventions are significantly more constrained and predictable than previously assumed. Role theory and frame analysis further exhibit how the status of other states within a great power's security hierarchy influences interventions. The findings provide a lucid account of great power behavior, offering critical insights for scholars and policymakers interested in the international dimensions of intrastate conflicts. Clients, Rivals and Rogues shows that the strategies that underpin great power interventions and provides crucial lessons for the management of regime conflicts, one of the most common and deadly forms of political instability today.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-02-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:652 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:306
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009560559

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Erin K. Jenne is a Professor of International Relations at the Central European University in Vienna, where she teaches courses on mixed methods, ethnic conflict, nationalism, populism and foreign policy analysis. Her first book, Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment (2007), won the Mershon Center's Edgar S. Furniss Book Award for making an exceptional contribution to the study of national and international security. Milos Popovic is a Data Analyst at Booking.com in Amsterdam. His research focuses on civil wars and terrorism, and on using R to map and analyze big data. NodeXL has recognized him as a Top 10 data visualization and R contributor on Twitter, and he is an expert in DataViz. David S. Siroky is a Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Violence, Conflict, and Security Lab at the University of Florida. He is co-author of Defection Denied: A Study of Civilian Support for Insurgency in Irregular War (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

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'After reading Clients, Rivals, and Rogues, I am convinced that everything I thought I knew about great power intervention in civils wars is flat out wrong. Great powers rarely decide to enter these disputes because of humanitarian concerns. They only rarely do so to check a rival's influence, or even to install 'friendly' governments. Instead, Jenne, Popovic, and Siroky show us that great powers get involved in countries to protect their security hierarchies—it is when they believe a client state is under threat that they will be tempted to throw their resources into another country's dispute. This book is as theoretically creative as it is methodologically sophisticated. No doubt it will become the standard in the study of intervention into civil wars.' Stacie E. Goddard, Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: why great powers intervene; 2. Hierarchical intervention theory; 3. Security hierarchies at war; 4. Proxy interventions in 1980s Afghanistan; 5. Liberal interventions in post-9/11 Afghanistan; 6. Hierarchical interventions in post-2011 Syria and Libya; 7. Conclusion; Appendices; Codebook; References.