1st Edition

Military Interventions in Civil Wars The Role of Foreign Direct Investments and Arms Trade

By Kamil C. Klosek Copyright 2022
170 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the motivations of military interventions in civil wars, with a focus on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the arms trade. The book assumes a state-centric view of international relations, whereby states remain the dominant actors on the world stage. It breaks away from the conventional wisdom that military interventions for economic interests are a product of... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Understanding military interventions in civil wars

3. Foreign direct investments and military interventions

4. The role of arms trade in proxy interventions

5. Indirect interventions in civil wars

6. The transformative power of investments

Biography

Kamil C. Klosek is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Peace Research Center Prague, Charles University, Czech Republic.