Breaking the habit in risk analysis : Thinking through risks of foreign military interventions
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2012-05
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This thesis is a study into the conceptual development of risk of foreign military interventions and
subsequently into the development of a risk analysis framework for foreign military intervention that is
sensitive to prevailing complex military operational areas and interventions. Here, risk is not reserved
to interventionist military actors and their mission alone but refers also to associated stakeholders and
their activities in various domains. At the same time, foreign military intervention is not limited to
large-scale, hostile and coercive actions. Accordingly, the thesis demonstrates the versatility of both
foreign military intervention and risk as concepts. In the end, the risks analysis framework shows that
any foreign military intervention always involves some kind of balancing act between what an
interventionist state desires, what military resources it has available and the risks it estimates to
encounter when putting the intended intervention into practice.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen