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What can cause conflict?
What can cause conflict?
Note that we're talking about latent and manifest / overt conflict here. Sometimes, the causes of conflict simmer beneath the surface for a while before tensions explode, but at other times they skip the "invisible" stage and go right to open conflict.
Greed?
Greed?
Grievance?
Grievance?
Territorial Dispute
Territorial Dispute
Resources
Resources
Ideology
Ideology
John Andrews, The World in Conflict - Introduction (15p).pdfFrom John Andrews, The World in Conflict: Understanding the World's Troublespots (2016)
Andrews has been the chief contributor to The Economist's foreign reporting and he is also the senior editor of Project Syndicate, a quality international politics news/commentary magazine. This is the introductory chapter to his 2016 book on international conflicts.
Ex. 1: Competition between China and the U.S.
Ex. 1: Competition between China and the U.S.
It's worth noting that you shouldn't put conflicts into one neat, little box. They are allowed to be complex, and often have multiple causes. The China-US conflict is a great example of this, both in terms of the range of causes but also in how those causes can be interpreted.
For instance, you might not initially think this is a territorial conflict (China & the US are not claiming the same piece of land, for instance) but it kind of is a territorial conflict. It's about spheres of influence rather than actual, legal control of territory. The U.S. has been exerting its influence into Asia for decades, whereas China now sees that they are the "big dog" in the region and it trying to assert what it sees as its right to be the regional superpower.
Parties to Conflict
Parties to Conflict
States
States
Intrastate Groups
Intrastate Groups
Protest Groups, Social Movements
Protest Groups, Social Movements
Can individuals be a party to conflict in Global Politics?
Can individuals be a party to conflict in Global Politics?
Further Reading
Further Reading
Both of these PDFs are chapters from Tim Marshall's book, Prisoners of Geography. Marshall has written a series of books over the last decade about the way geography shapes a country's priorities, the importance of flags, and the idea of walls (among other things.) These two chapters about Russia and China seek to explain the mindset between how these two states approach interactions with their neighbors, and can be used to help highlight a realist view of the causes of interstate conflict and other disputes between states.
Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography, Russia chapter.pdfTim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography, China chapter.pdfPage updated
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