“…Moreover, interventions in conflicts with large refugee flows are frequently backed by by international law (Dowty and Loescher, 1996). On the other hand, strategic and economic interests, e.g., the access to natural resources, may be pivotal in encouraging third parties to intervene (e.g., Lemke and Regan, 2004;Aydin, 2008;Findley and Marineau, 2015;Bove, Gleditsch and Sekeris, 2015), in particular if they are major powers (e.g., Gent, 2007). …”