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Title:
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How to Spark a War in Asia
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Author:
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Ted Galen Carpenter
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Source:
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The National Interest
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Date:
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September 24, 2016
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Description:
- A major challenge for a great power is preventing allies and client states from creating unwanted security crises. No matter how close or friendly an ally might be, it has its own policy agenda, and that agenda may differ from that of its great power protector. Failure to rein in a client can be calamitous. Serbia’s pursuit of a stridently nationalist parochial agenda against Austria-Hungary in the years before World War I, for example, was a major factor in eventually entangling its patron, Russia, in the conflict.
