Theorizing Territorial Withdrawal: The Need to Think Strategically

Rob Geist Pinfold; M. L.R. Smith

doi:10.1080/1057610X.2019.1661083

Theorizing Territorial Withdrawal: The Need to Think Strategically

Rob Geist Pinfold^*, M. L.R. Smith

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This article examines what factors cause states to withdraw from foreign territorial interventions. Scholarly analyses of withdrawal are rare, whilst within the broader research area of territorial conflict, studies are often dichotomized into neorealist or constructivist-inspired works, emphasizing a select few variables and one level of analysis alone. We argue these excessive simplifications of international politics lack utility for understanding territorial withdrawal. Instead, we employ the principles of strategic theory informed by a Clausewitzian paradigm, and construct a framework of three “arenas of bargaining,” spanning multiple variable-types and levels of analysis, to explain territorial withdrawal. In so doing, the analysis delineates a comprehensible and novel theoretical framework for understanding an under-researched policy problem.

Original language	English
Journal	STUDIES IN CONFLICT AND TERRORISM
Early online date	9 Sept 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2019.1661083
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 9 Sept 2019

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