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"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is an ancient proverb which suggests that two parties can or should work together against a common enemy.
The realist paradigm suggests that states ally against common enemies and thus states sharing common enemies should not fight each other. Nor are states expected to ally with enemies of their allies or with allies of their enemies.
Aug 25, 2019 · In Italy and France, the common enemy is both illegal immigration and Islam, while in Spain, the common enemy has emerged over territorial integrity fears and feminism. These differences are also apparent at the intra-country level.
In politics, a common front is an alliance between different groups, forces, or interests in pursuit of a common goal or in opposition to a common enemy.
- Coalitions of Non-State Actors
- Temporal and Geographical Continuum
- Armed Groups Fighting Against A Common Enemy
The fragmented approach presents crucial challenges when a myriad of non-State actors are militarily active in a country: assessing the intensity of violence for each and every one of them could be nearly impossible. Accordingly, it has been suggested that it could be more realistic and legally sound to aggregate the intensity of non-State actors t...
In a recent article, Kleffner posited that, in complex situations like Syria and DRC, ‘there are good grounds for applying a cumulative approach to the determination of whether the requisite level of intensity has been met.’ This would be the case when several organized armed groups engage in armed hostilities ‘on a geographical and temporal contin...
While these alternative approaches present a number of challenges, applying the fragmented approach to complex realities is simply unfeasible, and may lead to the legal paradox of concluding that there are no NIACs in a country even when the cumulative intensity of violence is extremely high. The drawbacks of this are twofold. First, the government...
Oct 30, 2019 · Alliances at that time were essentially agreements by European empires to combine military and economic assets in pursuit of political objectives. The European continent was the stage for many of...
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Oct 23, 2020 · A disparate literature hypothesizes what can broadly be described as the common-enemy effect: the fact that the interaction with a common enemy (formed by Nature, an individual, or a group) increases cooperation.
