Abstract
This article reviews methodologically and substantively the large literature on conflict expansion. It compares and contrasts the two quite different approaches that have been used. One is based on a contagion/diffusion framework that sees war involvement coming from the outside environment. The second is a Realpolitik, rational actor approach that sees involvement in ongoing wars as a result of conscious actions to achieve foreign policy goals. The contagion/ diffusion framework is rejected as fundamentally flawed but which can provide needed modifications to a more Realpolitik perspective.
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