A Slight Re-telling of the David and Goliath Story: Surprising Power Dynamics in Proxy Relationships

This thesis discusses how local forces, despite being the weaker actor in a proxy relationship, manipulate external powers’ support to pursue their own objectives. Three factors – practical advantage, relative will, and diverging objectives – explain this counterintuitive power dynamic. First, local...

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Main Author: Wang, Ruiyang
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2019
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Online Access:https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2205
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3239&context=cmc_theses