ABSTRACT
The main interest of literature on international crises consists in understanding how states unilaterally, or through any form of cooperation, handle crises (Brecher, 1979). The aim of the empirical part of this study fits in with this and tries to propose an explanation about states’ patterns of behaviour in dealing with a complex international crisis starting from the specificities characterising the crisis itself. Chapter 5 is the core of the empirical part of this study. After exploring in Chapter 4 the data at disposal, the measurement and collection tools, Chapter 5 proposes statistical analyses in order to test the casual relation between the types of intervention – unilateralism, partial delegation and full delegation – and the characteristics of crises – urgency, uncertainty and threat.
