eprintid: 17170 rev_number: 15 eprint_status: archive userid: 1180 dir: disk0/00/01/71/70 datestamp: 2014-07-28 12:56:40 lastmod: 2016-03-29 09:57:31 status_changed: 2014-07-28 12:56:40 type: doctoralThesis metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Kirchner, Magdalena title: Why States Rebel. Understanding State Sponsorship of Terrorism subjects: 320 divisions: 180500 adv_faculty: af-18 cterms_swd: Terrorismus cterms_swd: Außenpolitik cterms_swd: Syrien cterms_swd: Israel cterms_swd: Türkei cterms_swd: PKK cterms_swd: Hisbollah cterms_swd: Fatah cterms_swd: Neorealismus note: Im Buchhandel erschienen unter: Why States Rebel. Understanding State Sponsorship of Terrorism. International and Security Studies, vol. 2. Verlag Barbara Budrich. 2016. 281 pp. Pb. 39,90 € (D), 41,10 € (A), US$58.00, GBP 36.95. ISBN 978-3-8474-0641-9. abstract: State Sponsorship of Terrorism connects three major contemporary issues of international relations: intrastate conflict, third-party intervention, and interstate relations. In order to understand,why states choose not to fight but to form alliances with terrorist organizations, the study links international and domestic security challenges and policy incentives with formal and informal limitations political leaders have to take into consideration when adjusting to them. In this study, it is argued in a neoclassical realist tradition of international relations theory that sponsorship emerges under specific conditions of mutually reinforcing external and internal security dilemmas, constituting a third way between balancing a rival through interstate alliance formation or armament. Hence, the study traced both extent and shape of sponsorship policy back to specific interplay patterns between interstate enmity and domestic challenges to the political leadership. Examining Syria’s relations with Palestinian Fatah, Turkish-Kurdish PKK, and Lebanese Hizballah, between 1964 and 2006, the analysis explored the formation and developmentof sponsorship patterns in order to gain a deeper understanding of a process, which had not yet been systematically traced. date: 2014 id_scheme: DOI id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00017170 ppn_swb: 1658751973 own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-171706 date_accepted: 2014-04-23 advisor: HASH(0x564e1c3bf620) language: eng bibsort: KIRCHNERMAWHYSTATESR2014 full_text_status: public citation: Kirchner, Magdalena (2014) Why States Rebel. Understanding State Sponsorship of Terrorism. [Dissertation] document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/17170/1/Kirchner_Dissertation_Why%20States%20Rebel.pdf