Conflict escalation and conflict reduction in an international crisis

Suez, 1956

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6284499
AutoresEdward E Azar (Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, autor correspondente)
Ano1972
Volume16
Fascículo2
Páginas183-201
Data de publicação1972-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/002200277201600204
OpenAlexW1987637276
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas42
Referências citadas15

Conflict research has already advanced some very useful conceptual and empirical discoveries concerning the structure and process of international conflict escalation. Some of the more basic findings suggest that when two parties involve themselves in a conflict situation, they tend to escalate the intensity, scope, and frequency of their negative signals; they tend to make more visible or even possibly compound their areas of incompatibility; they tend to raise the intensity of their mutual images; and they tend to engage in or increase the rate of a potentially destructive arms race (Boulding, 1961; North, 1963; Richardson, 1960; Singer, 1962; Smoker, 1966; Wright, 1965). Conflict reduction on the other hand is less well understood. However there is

Arms race · International conflict · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Wright · Computer Science · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology