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third-party intervention  

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  • Third-party intervention can be defined as the coercive or cooperative intercession of an external actor into the affairs of a sovereign state in order to influence the outcome of an internal conflict. Third parties are nonparticipants in the primary conflict and may be individuals, state governments, international organizations, or regional associations; they may be unilateral, consisting of one main actor, or multilateral, consisting of multiple actors. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Third-Party Intervention]

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