Triadic coercion: Israel’s targeting of states that host non-state actors: by Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili, New York, Columbia University Press, 2019, 384 pp., USD 30.00 …

One of the pervasive anachronisms of the study of conflict is the implausibly sharp distinction drawn between domestic and international conflict. According to this binary, one might conclude that since at least 1945, bilateral interstate conflict, the wheelhouse of international relations (IR) scholars, has been on the decline; while civil conflict, the bailiwick of comparativists, has burgeoned. Increasingly, however, innovative scholars from across the IR-comparative divide have thought their way out of this framing, bravely pitching their tents in the no-man’s-land between these two restrictive epistemes.