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Interstate Conflict Behavior and Regional Potential for Conflict in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Wolf Grabendorff
Wolf Grabendorff*
Affiliation:
Research Institute for International Affairs, Ebenhausen, West Germany
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The growing importance of third world countries in the international system brings their potential for conflict and cooperation to the forefront. Given the fact that the East-West conflict tends to intensify the North-South conflict, a general tendency toward more warlike antagonisms is becoming evident within the Third World. In view of this trend, Latin America as a region becomes particularly interesting; conditions here have always led to conflict situations between the various countries, but specific historical factors seem to have kept these conflicts from erupting to the same extent that they have in other regions of the Third World.

Conflicts between two states do not suddenly occur. Their virulence rather gradually develops from a mixture of border conflicts, historical animosities, economic disputes, differences in political systems, arms races, and certainly, the influence of the big powers.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , August 1982 , pp. 267 - 294
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Copyright © University of Miami 1982

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