TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abrahams,Alexei S.
AU  - Baker,Ryan T.
AU  - Berman,Eli
AU  - Biddle,Stephen
AU  - Brewer,Ben
AU  - Gerard,Miquel
AU  - Gerard,Padró
AU  - Lake,David A.
AU  - Macdonald,Julia M.
AU  - Merrell,Brandon
AU  - Nanes,Matthew J.
AU  - Suong,Clara H.
AU  - Vaughn,Abigail
AU  - Yared,Pierre
TI  - Proxy Wars: Suppressing Violence through Local Agents 
SN  - 9781501733093
U1  - 355.02 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Proxy war
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Case studies
KW  - 21st century
KW  - General Economics
KW  - International Studies
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - contemporary policy, proxies in warfare, Nazis, Korean War, Afghanistan
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; Acknowledgments --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. SOUTH KOREA, 1950–53 --; 2. DENMARK, 1940–45 --; 3. COLOMBIA, 1990–2010 --; 4. LEBANON AND GAZA, 1975–2017 --; 5. EL SALVADOR, 1979–92 --; 6. PAKISTAN, 2001–11 --; 7. NOT DARK YET --; 8. YEMEN, 2001–11 --; 9. IRAQ, 2003–11 --; 10. POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES --; CONCLUSION --; References --; About the Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local proxies or agents, through what Eli Berman and David A. Lake call a strategy of "indirect control," has always been a central tool of foreign policy. Understanding how countries motivate local allies to act in sometimes costly ways, and when and how that strategy succeeds, is essential to effective foreign policy in today's world. In this splendid collection, Berman and Lake apply a variant of principal-agent theory in which the alignment of interests or objectives between a powerful state and a local proxy is central. Through analysis of nine detailed cases, Proxy Wars finds that: when principals use rewards and punishments tailored to the agent's domestic politics, proxies typically comply with their wishes; when the threat to the principal or the costs to the agent increase, the principal responds with higher-powered incentives and the proxy responds with greater effort; if interests diverge too much, the principal must either take direct action or admit that indirect control is unworkable. Covering events from Denmark under the Nazis to the Korean War to contemporary Afghanistan, and much in between, the chapters in Proxy Wars engage many disciplines and will suit classes taught in political science, economics, international relations, security studies, and much more
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733093
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501733093
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501733093/original
ER  -