All or Nothing
Generally speaking, these types of scholars are skeptical of claims that issue indivisibility is the root cause of a war.
Rationalists
Fundamentally, commitment problems revolve around an inability of the actors in a conflict to do this with each other.
Trust each other
These are the two ways in which war is costly to states
Blood and Treasure
This is the question Cynthia Enloe encourages us to start with when exploring international politics.
Where are the women?
Recently, speaking about Iran, US President Donald Trump warned that his administration might "give them the hammer." Trump's threat did not include any specific details about the timeline for carrying out the threat or the nature of the targets to be attacked. This is an example of
According to Monica Duffy Toft, ethnic groups will be more likely to see their territory as indivisible when the group can claim this type of status over the territory.
Homeland status
International politics occurs in an environment where there is no central authority to enforce agreements between states. This is the term political scientists use to describe this feature of the international system.
Anarchy
This is the quantitative, empirical threshold that political scientists have traditionally used to distinguish wars from other forms of armed conflict.
1000 battlefield deaths
Enloe contends that we are all this in international politics, because we participate in the creation and maintenance of social systems and beliefs that influence the conduct of international affairs.
Actors
Generally speaking, wars cause by incomplete information are _______________ than wars caused by commitment problems.
Shorter
Some scholars are skeptical of issue indivisibility as a cause of bargaining failure because they believe that rational actors should accept this form of compensation for their lost territory.
Side payments
In this type of war, one country initiates a war against another because they believe that whoever starts the war will most likely win the war.
Preemptive war
A key difference between interstate wars and civil wars is that in civil wars at least one of the actors lacks this vital defining characteristic of modern states.
Sovereignty
In the early 1970s, the Provisional IRA established vehicle checkpoints to control movement in and out of Catholic communities in West Belfast and along the border with the Republic of Ireland. This information suggests that the PIRA was this type of actor.
Guerrilla or Insurgent
In August of 2012, President Obama gave a nationally televised speech in which he asserted that any use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime in Syria would constitute crossing a "red line" that would trigger immediate US military intervention in the Syrian civil war. President Obama's speech was one example of __________.
Hand Tying (audience costs)
When ethnic groups claim their territory is indivisible, they are implicitly making a claim that they are willing to pay any cost to reach their ideal point. This suggests that these actors have very high ________.
Resolve
Typically, governments will ask that rebel groups give these up as part of a peace settlement. Rebels who agree to this request might fear that they will be unable to compel the government to obey the peace agreement.
Weapons
The United Kingdom engaged in major combat operations against Argentina from April 1982 - June 1982. During the fighting, about 950 soldiers were killed. 255 of the dead were from the UK, the remainder were from Argentina. Political scientists would classify this engagement as a __________.
Militarized interstate dispute (not a war)
Both the textbook and Sanchez-Cuenca & de la Calle describe terrorism as an example of the "power to hurt." This description suggests that terrorist violence would be most likely to influence this parameter of the bargaining model of war.
Prior to the start of the First World War, Germany had developed a top secret plan to win a simultaneous war against France and Russia. France and Russia did not know about this plan, which led them to underestimate Germany's chances of winning. Russia and France had incomplete information about Germany's _______.
Military capabilities
The country of Spain includes three large, regionally concentrated ethnic groups (the Basques, the Catalans, and the Castilians). Historically, the government of Spain has argued that Spain's territory is indivisible. According to the argument of Monica Duffy Toft, the Spanish government has probably adopted this position because it fears __________.
Precedent setting
Preventive war
In 1998, political representatives of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) signed a peace agreement with the British government to end the IRA's campaign of violence. Shortly after the agreement was signed, grassroots members of the IRA took explosives from an IRA weapons dump and detonated a bomb that killed more than 2 dozen people. The IRA leadership's inability to control its members & implement the peace agreement is an example of a ________________
Commitment problem
Enloe argues that contemporary research on international politics inappropriately ignores this sphere of activity and implicitly treats it as non-political.
The private sphere
Recently, US President Donald Trump has been threatening to resume attacks on Iran if the Iranian government does not agree to meet US demands. At the same time, the United States Navy has decided to deploy a third US aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East. This decision is an example of _______.
Costly signaling