The Study of Interdependence and Conflict

@article{Mansfield2001TheSO,
  title={The Study of Interdependence and Conflict},
  author={Edward Deering Mansfield and Brian M. Pollins},
  journal={Journal of Conflict Resolution},
  year={2001},
  volume={45},
  pages={834 - 859}
}
A burgeoning literature has emerged on the relationship between economic interdependence and political conflict. This literature is evaluated, and three issues are raised for future research. First, there is a need to improve the theoretical basis of claims about the influence of interdependence on conflict and to specify more clearly the causal mechanisms underlying any such relationship. Second, future research should identify the boundary conditions of the effects of interdependence on… 
View on SAGE
209 Citations
Highly Influential Citations
8
Background Citations
56
Methods Citations
1
Results Citations
3

209 Citations

Trade and Conflict Reduction: Implications for Regional Strategic Stability

The relationship between growing trade interdependence and the reduction of militarised inter-state conflict is one of the central theoretical tenets in neo-liberal institutionalism. This tenet,…

Interdependence Theory and the Measurement of International Conflict

Discussions of trade interdependence and its political implications occasionally discuss the operationalization of interdependence in some detail, yet the measurement of the dependent…

Interdependence Between States and Economies: The International Response

Through a review of the different forms of interdependence between states and economies, this essay argues that an international response resulting from further global cooperation is the way forward.…

Economic Interdependence and International Interactions

This article is an empirical analysis of the relationship between economic interdependence and international third-party interactions. When countries seek to protect their trade gains, the…

The WTO, Economic Interdependence, and Conflict

Scholars and policymakers have long been interested in the relationship between international institutions, foreign trade, and interstate conflict. This timely volume presents the most important…

ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE AND INTERNATIONAL INTERACTIONS : THE IMPACT OF MARKET POWER ON DYADIC CONFLICT AND COOPERATION

This article presents a theoretical approach to analysing how a country with market power could affect international relations. The liberal view and trade-conflict model claim that if countries seek…

Economic Exit, Interdependence, and Conflict

This article examines the question of whether economic interdependence constrains or motivates interstate conflict. The theoretical model predicts when and how interdependence influences conflict,…

Inter-state tensions and regional integration: Could the Arab Spring initiate a virtuous circle?

This paper draws on the economic and political sciences literature to examine the possibility that the Arab Spring could bring the region out of the past vicious circle by which regional integration…

Interdependence and the Duration of Militarized Conflict

Many researchers have reported empirical support for the liberal proposition that increased trade between states reduces their propensity to engage in militarized conflict. However, the literature…

Economic Interdependence, Polity Type, Conflict and Peace: When Does Interdependence Cause Peace and Cause War?

Competing IR paradigms have long debated the relationship between trade and conflict. Some view trade as causing interstate conflict whereas others see it as pacifying interstate relations. To…
...

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 87 REFERENCES

Interdependence and Conflict

The questions of whether and how interdependence affects international conflict have received increased attention since the end of the Cold War. Yet, adherents to various schools of political and…

Conflict and Interdependence

This article investigates the relationship between interdependence and conflict, using U.S.-Warsaw Pact trade and conflict data during détente as a case study. A theoretical framework is developed in…

Conflict and Trade

This article applies microeconomic theory to illustrate the plausibility of a relationship between international trade and conflict. It is argued that the mutual dependence established between two…

Measuring interdependence: a response

There are two areas of conflict between Professor Rosecrance and his colleagues and me over the issue of measuring interdependence. The first concerns the choice of indicators one might use. This…

Economic Interdependence and International Conflict: Some Cross-national Evidence

This study examines the relationship between economic interdependence and international conflict. Two schools of thought exist on this issue: some prominent writers suggest that interdependence…

Interdependence: Myth or Reality?

One of the uncertainties of modern international relations is the degree of interdependence among states. Some theorists have asserted that interdependence is high and/or growing, and others have…

Power and interdependence : world politics in transition

In this chapter, Keohene & Nye begin by applying the economic process model of regime change to oceans (the international regime of the sea) and money (international economic relations). This model…

Economic Interdependence: A Path to Peace or a Source of Interstate Conflict?

This article investigates the long-standing liberal hypothesis that trade ties facilitate interstate peace. Rather than assuming that trade will always promote peace, the author highlights the need…

The dynamics of enduring rivalries

The concept of enduring rivalries--conflicts tantamount to militarized competition between two states--is rapidly emerging as a subject of research in international relations. The nine contributors…

Saved from Oblivion: Interdependence Theory in the First Half of the 20th Century : A Study on the Causality Between War and Complex Interdependence

This text considers theories of global interdependence developed by Norman Angell, Ramsey Muir, Francis Delaisi, Charles E Merriam and David Mitrany. It looks at the contribution their work makes to…
...