New Research on Military Intervention

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel will feature new research on military intervention. Papers on this panel will address various questions that relate to this important topic, including: what role did U.S. unipolarity play in its military intervention decisions? How does public support or constrain military intervention? Does fragmentation of rebel groups within civil wars influence external military intervention decisions? And why are some uses of military force abroad so much longer and costlier than others? The scholarship presented on this panel addresses these questions, among others, using varied methods and in a range of empirical and temporal settings. And the research has important implications for scholarship on military intervention, as well as for foreign policy.

Sub Unit

• Division 19: International Security 

Individual Presentations

• Unipolarity and the Accelerating Pace of US Military Intervention, 1945-2019 - Sidita Kushi, Bridgewater State University; Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University; Nils Hagerdal, Tufts University

• Destiny, Fate, & Consciousness: Anglo American Support for Militarism, 1948-2020 - David Brooks Ebner, Sweet Briar College

• Rebel Group Fragmentation and Military Intervention in Civil Wars - Rebecca Ellen Dudley, Brigham Young University; Julia Chatterley

• Costly Military Intervention by the Great Powers, 1918-2022 - Nicholas Anderson, The George Washington University

Chair

• Elizabeth Nathan Saunders Columbia University