Download or read book Linkage Politics In The Middle East written by Yaacov Bar-siman-tov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional studies of linkage politics tend to assume that internal political instability leads a government to divert attention from internal problems by initiating an external conflict or stressing the pressures of international problems. In contrast, quantitative studies typically conclude that there is little or no relationship between interna