Frederik Schissler

How can the trend towards the internationalization of intrastate conflicts be explained?

My research exa­mines how the involve­ment of ex­ternal actors trans­forms intrastate con­flicts. Data on the develop­ment of intrastate vio­lence, particularly since the early 2010s, clearly show: Ex­ternal actors increa­singly inter­nationalize intrastate con­flicts through inter­vention. I am in­terested in identi­fying the patterns that emerge in this trans­formation and ex­ploring how this trend can be described and ex­plained. At TraCe, I investi­gate different forms of ex­ternal support in civil wars and dis­aggregate the trend towards inter­nationalization. The goal is to deve­lop a network perspec­tive that can grasp and ex­plain the inter­nationalization of intra­state conflicts as a macro­trend.

Re­search Area Forms: 1.1. Fin­dings on the Forms, Causes and Con­sequences of Poli­tical Vio­lence