Revolution and War: Rethinking the Linkage Between Internal and External Conflict

A not inconsiderable literature has been devoted to the complex of the linkages/connections/causal structure between phenomena occurring within the borders of nation-states and phenomena occurring beyond those borders. The issue of linkages between domestic and foreign conflict has been of particular concern to students of international relations and comparative politics, to students of war and revolution. While a variety of theoretical perspectives would argue for such linkages between internal and external conflict, difficult questions continue to focus scholarly attention on this relationship.