A small victorious war: domestic revolution and international conflict

摘要

The paper provides an extremely simple model of the interaction ofinternational and internal conflicts. Specifically, it analyzes the situationwhen investments in both domestic and international wars are complementary.Therefore it predicts a possibility of inefficiently high investments ininternational conflict due to the threat of the domestic revolution or - in amodified setting - of purely wasteful investments in the military capacitywithout any international war at all. The results are debated from thepoint of view of several cases of military conflicts caused by he domesticregime stability considerations.