A Theory of Territorial Fait Accompli: Muscle-flexing Signaling, Misperception, and the Risk of War

• In Event: Trust and Misperception

Brief Overview

This paper conceptualizes territorial fait accompli as a muscle-flexing signal with the risk of target misperception. By developing a model based on the above notion, I explain why territorial fait accompli raises the conditional risk of war.

Author

• Hiroto Sawada, National Institute of Defense Studies, Japan