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This project focuses on domestic political pressures in response to different kinds of international threat. In explaining the domestic politics of external threat, I seek to answer why states choose escalate conflicts over some issues and not others, against rivals at certain t…

This dissertation examines the questions of why and how enduring rivalries---disputes between states that involve repeated military conflict over a long period of time---through an analysis of rivalry clusters in the Middle East and Latin America. I argue that rivalries will onl…