From obligation to opportunity

The article introduces the concept of “inverted entrapment” to describe how great powers in asymmetric alignments can convert their reluctant involvement in a conflict into opportunities for achieving broader strategic objectives. Building on theories of alliance politics, particularly abandonment, entanglement, and entrapment, it contends that powerful states, initially obligated to intervene due to alliance commitments and the pressures of wartime exigency, can leverage the crisis and the dependency of their weaker partner to enforce desirable concessions and benefit from increased post-conflict influence. Key events from the 1973 War, including the US airlift to Israel and the Israel-Syrian Disengagement Agreement talks, are analyzed to illustrate this dynamic

Government (linguistics) · Obligation · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Agricultural and Environmental Management · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society