Browsing by Subject "Rivalry"

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Introducing the response to sponsorship dataset: Determinants of responses by target states to state sponsors of rebel groups
(DergiPark Akademik, 2024-12-27) Kılıç, Latife Kınay
Empirical studies on the sponsorship of rebel groups have focused on understanding why and how supporter states help rebels, whether this engagement benefits the rebels, and the effects of sponsorship on the conflict outcomes. By comparison, the responses of target states to sponsorship behavior have been neglected despite the possibility of interstate crises, disputes, and conflict due to the sponsorship. This study introduces a new dataset, the Response Sponsorship Dataset (RSD), which measures target states’ responses toward state sponsors of rebel groups intending to terminate the sponsorship. The data includes information on the responses of 58 target states to 102 supporter states concerning the support of 150 rebel groups between 1991 and 2010, comprising 3719 observations. The RSD identifies diplomatic, economic, militarized, domestic, covert responses and inaction as target state responses as well as classifying them as coercive or non-coercive based on target states’ foreign policy engagements with sponsors. The RSD provides new opportunities for researchers and policymakers to analyze target responses with regards to conflict management and foreign policy as well as promising future research on support termination.
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The origins of the Cold War in the Middle East : the Turkish case
(2006) Çakal, Hüseyin
This thesis aims to analyze the “contribution” of Turkey to the origins of the Cold War in the Middle East. The main argument of this thesis, in this context, is that the immediate post war environment in the middle east did not resemble something different from the years-old strategic environment in the middle east, main characteristic of which is continuous great power rivalry for hegemony over the region. At this juncture Turkey’s contribution happened to be a catalyst in the deterioration of the pragmatist wartime partnership between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies. Turkish policy makers stressed the power and inevitability of Russian attack in the event of lack of British and American opposition. During the period concerned, in the Middle East, the danger to the security of the free world did arise not so much from the threat of direct Soviet military aggression. It mainly aroused from continuation of the unfavorable historical trends. Therefore, imperial rivalries and dynastic ambitions suffice to explain most part of the postwar situation in the Middle East and thereby gave enough clue for the origins of the Cold War in that part of the world.
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Target state responses to externalsupport of rebel groups: revealingthe impact of support level andinterstate strategic interaction
(Sage Publications Ltd., 2024-09-27) Kınay Kılıç, Latife; Aydınlı, Ersel; Tokdemir, Efe
How do target states react to third-party sponsorship of rebel groups? In this article, we provide atypology of responses from target states based on their severity and comprehensiveness level. Weargue that the external support level and existing strategic interaction between targets and spon-sors are crucial to explain the variation in target responses toward state sponsors since they affectthe target states’ level of perceived threat. We test our theoretical claims using an original datasetfeaturing target responses between 1991 and 2010. Our ﬁndings show that strategic rivalry is themost crucial factor in increasing the severity and comprehensiveness of responses. Higher levels ofsupport for rebel groups increase only coercive responses and do not impact comprehensiveness,whereas formal alliances decrease the adoption of mixed responses. Our study contributes to theliterature on the external support of rebels and conﬂict management with implications for predict-ing target states’ responses to sponsorship.