Use of an incident or perceived provocation to justify broader escalation and domestic political consolidation.
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Use of an incident or perceived provocation to justify broader escalation and domestic political consolidation.
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"And after that, I think that the Iranians recognized that there really is no hope in negotiating with the Americans. The Americans want to..."
"...So she must have been someone of high authority. actually a precedent for this. So for example we know that in about 2000 BCE..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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