BORDERLANDS Lecture: Why is the Middle East so War Prone?
Dates:
- Fri 08 Apr 2016 14.00 - 16.00
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2016-04-08 14:00
2016-04-08 16:00
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BORDERLANDS Lecture: Why is the Middle East so War Prone?
The lecture explores explanations for war at Waltz’s three levels of analysis: state, state system and leadership, and matches them with empirical evidence from a data set of 19 MENA wars. The analysis finds that while revisionism at state level most immediately drives wars, it has little connection to regime type; that war results in good part from the construction of a regional system marked by a “Hobbesian” form of anarchy, with pervasive irredentism and several “offensive realist” states. These propensities are exacerbated or diluted by the regional imbalance (or balance) of power and the character of state leadership at a given time; finally, the periodic intervention of global powers in struggles over the region’s oil resources also accounts for several wars.
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The lecture explores explanations for war at Waltz’s three levels of analysis: state, state system and leadership, and matches them with empirical evidence from a data set of 19 MENA wars. The analysis finds that while revisionism at state level most immediately drives wars, it has little connection to regime type; that war results in good part from the construction of a regional system marked by a “Hobbesian” form of anarchy, with pervasive irredentism and several “offensive realist” states. These propensities are exacerbated or diluted by the regional imbalance (or balance) of power and the character of state leadership at a given time; finally, the periodic intervention of global powers in struggles over the region’s oil resources also accounts for several wars.
- Location:
- Seminar Room
- Affiliation:
- Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
- Type:
- Lecture
- Organiser:
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Raffaella Del Sarto (EUI - RSCAS)
- Contact:
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Mia Saugman
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- Speaker:
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Prof. Raymond Hinnebusch (University of St. Andrews)
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- BORDERLANDS Project
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