Following the leader : international order, alliance strategies, and emulation / Raymond C. Kuo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuo, Raymond C. (Raymond Cheng), author.

Series:

Stanford scholarship online.

Stanford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alliances.

International relations.

Alliances--Case studies.

World politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Nations have powerful reasons to get their military alliances right. When security pacts go well, they underpin regional and global order; when they fail, they spread wars across continents as states are dragged into conflict. We would, therefore, expect states to carefully tailor their military partnerships to specific conditions. This expectation, Raymond C. Kuo argues, is wrong. 'Following the Leader' argues that most countries ignore their individual security interests in military pacts, instead converging on a single, dominant alliance strategy.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Transhistorical Patterns in Alliance Strategy

2 The Theory of Strategic Alliance Diffusion

3 The Diffusion of Alliance Strategy: Systemic Patterns and Evidence

4 Great Powers and Strategic Constraints: The Bismarckian Era, 1873-1890

5 Cold War Credibility: NATO, SEATO, and CENTO, 1949-1965

6 Diffusion to the Periphery: Security Cooperation in Southern Africa, 1992-2004

7 The Dominant Strategy and Alliance Failure

8 The Dominant Alliance Strategy: Policy Implications and Th eoretical Extensions

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503628571

1503628574

OCLC:

1251448130