ABSTRACT
The “linkage politics” was coined by James N. Rosenau in 1969 in an effort to present a new approach to research on the political behavior of states. An important aim of linkage politics is to establish a synthesis between international relations and political science. “Conflict linkage” is an extension of linkage politics that focuses on the more limited aspect of the relationship between conflicts in the internal political environment of a given state and those of the international system. Many researchers in sociology and psychology have dealt with the connections between internal and external conflicts. The traditional school in international relations accepts intuitively assumptions that are similar to those of the socio-psychology researchers, to the effect that in special circumstances, there is a relationship between internal and external conflict. The starting point of researchers of the quantitative school of international relations has generally been to accept the assumptions of the traditional school.
