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Wedge Tactics

Wedge Tactics is a strategic framework in the academic study of movement dynamics that enables actors to create division within opposing groups by exploiting existing tensions, thereby weakening collective resistance through targeted disruption.

9

Publications

317

Citations

9

Authors

9

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

2

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Publications

9

Preventing Enemy Coalitions: How Wedge Strategies Shape Power Politics

Timothy W. Crawford · International Security · 2011 · 94 citations

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To Coerce or Reward? Theorizing Wedge Strategies in Alliance Politics

Yasuhiro Izumikawa · Security Studies · 2013 · 48 citations

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Binding Strategies in Alliance Politics: The Soviet-Japanese-US Diplomatic Tug of War in the Mid-1950s

Yasuhiro Izumikawa · International Studies Quarterly · 2018 · 36 citations

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Wedge Strategy, Balancing, and the Deviant Case of Spain, 1940–41

Timothy W. Crawford · Security Studies · 2008 · 33 citations

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Deterring the ‘boat people’: Explaining the Australian government's People Swap response to asylum seekers

Jaffa McKenzie, Reza Hasmath · Australian Journal of Political Science · 2013 · 31 citations

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Authors

9

  1. TW
    Timothy W. Crawford

    J. Iverson Riddle Developmental Center, United States

    2 publications · 127 citations

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  2. YI
    Yasuhiro Izumikawa

    Chuo University, Japan

    2 publications · 84 citations

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  3. MD
    Matteo Dian

    University of Bologna, Italy

    1 publications · 21 citations

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  4. AW
    Alex Weisiger

    California University of Pennsylvania, United States

    1 publications · 25 citations

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  5. RH
    Reza Hasmath

    University of Alberta, Canada

    1 publications · 31 citations

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Institutions

9

  1. Chuo University

    Hachiōji, Japan

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    84 citations

  2. Moscow State Institute of International Relations

    Moscow, Russia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  3. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    31 citations

  4. University of Bologna

    Bologna, Italy

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  5. Crawford University

    Igbesa, Nigeria

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    94 citations

  6. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    31 citations

  7. California University of Pennsylvania

    California, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    25 citations

  8. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

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Venues

  1. International Studies Quarterly

    2 publications · 61 citations

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  2. Security Studies

    2 publications · 81 citations

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  3. Australian Journal of Political Science

    2 publications · 46 citations

    2

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  4. Communist and Post-Communist Studies

    1 publications · 14 citations

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  5. International Security

    1 publications · 94 citations

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