Are U.S. military interventions contagious over time? [electronic resource] : intervention timing and its implications for force planning / Jennifer Kavanagh
- Author
- Kavanagh, Jennifer, 1981-
- Additional Titles
- Are United States military interventions contagious over time
- Published
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND, [2013]
- Physical Description
- xvii, 58 pages ; 26 cm
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- Contents
- Preface -- Figures -- Tables -- Summary -- Intervention timing and temporal dependence -- Testing for temporal dependence -- Results -- Implications for force planning -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Defining temporal dependence: a review of existing evidence -- What is temporal dependence? -- What does the literature say about intervention timing and temporal dependence? -- Interventions and timing -- Predictors of political instability -- Temporal dependence in financial markets -- Summary -- Testing for temporal interdependence -- Testing for temporal dependence -- Data and operationalization -- Interventions -- Political conflict -- Results -- What drives armed conflict? -- Testing for robustness: linear and ARIMA specifications -- Summary -- Is there temporal dependence between military deployments? -- Testing for robustness: linear and ARIMA specifications -- Summary -- Implications for force planning -- Will temporal dependence affect force requirements? -- Mechanisms of temporal dependence -- How can temporal dependence be integrated into the planning process? -- Assessing the relevance of temporal clustering -- Building temporal dependence into force planning -- Preventing clustered conflicts -- Conclusion and next steps.
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- ISBN
- 9780833079015 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-58).
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