Interstate Conflict Behavior and Regional Potential for Conflict in Latin America

Bibliographic Data

ID4547484
AuthorsWolf Grabendorff (corresponding author)
Year1982
Volume24
Issue3
Pages267-294
Publication date1982-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/165498
OpenAlexW2783378181
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited19

The growing importance of third world countries in the international system brings their potential for conflict and cooperation to the forefront. Given the fact that the East-West conflict tends to intensify the North-South conflict, a general tendency toward more warlike antagonisms is becoming evident within the Third World. In view of this trend, Latin America as a region becomes particularly interesting; conditions here have always led to conflict situations between the various countries, but specific historical factors seem to have kept these conflicts from erupting to the same extent that they have in other regions of the Third World.Conflicts between two states do not suddenly occur. Their virulence rather gradually develops from a mixture of border conflicts, historical animosities, economic disputes, differences in political systems, arms races, and certainly, the influence of the big powers

Development economics · Economics · Economy · Geography · International conflict · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Third world · International Relations in Latin America · Law