Disparity and Diversion: Domestic Economic Inequality and MID Initiation

IF 1.7 2区社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Foreign Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI:10.1093/fpa/orab032

Stephen B Long, Jeffrey Pickering

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Abstract

Scholarship has demonstrated that domestic economic inequality is related to a number of forms of intrastate conflict, such as civil wars and rebellions. There are good reasons to believe that it also has an impact on the initiation of militarized interstate disputes for diversionary reasons. Such use of external force may refocus popular attention and may reinforce the strong nationalist sentiment that tends to prevail in societies with substantial economic inequality. Our empirical results support this contention in democracies but, as expected, not in autocracies. At a time when domestic economic inequality is rising across the world, our findings may be timely.

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差距与转移:国内经济不平等与MID启动

学术研究表明，国内经济不平等与许多形式的国内冲突有关，如内战和叛乱。有充分的理由相信，它也会对出于转移注意力的原因而引发的军事化国家间争端产生影响。这种外部力量的使用可能会重新集中公众的注意力，并可能加强在经济严重不平等的社会中往往占上风的强烈民族主义情绪。我们的实证结果在民主国家支持这一论点，但正如预期的那样，在专制国家则不然。在世界各地的国内经济不平等正在加剧之际，我们的发现可能是及时的。

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Foreign Policy Analysis INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-

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