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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Security Alliances"”.
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Looking For Leverage: Strategic Resources, Contentious Bargaining, and US-African Security Cooperation
… of the international relations literature on security alliances weaker states are rarely in a position to drive hard bargains with their more powerful allies. Yet African states, for example, do not simply endure what they must to be of service to powerful friends. They often attempt to use …
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Exploitative friendships : manipulating asymmetric alliances
… in the context of asymmetric international security alliances. When weak states ally with stronger states - i.e. states with significantly greater military capabilities - what explains differences in the junior party's approach to the alliance relationship? Why do some junior allies show …
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Rewiring the Spokes: The Future of U.S. Bilateralism in Asia
… the U.S. opted to create a series of bilateral alliances after WWII in Asia, dubbed the Hub-and-Spokes system. This alliance system has not only sustained itself, but also continues to fortify itself in the face of a rising threat in Asia. China has increased its assertiveness and has shifted …
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Cold Turkey No More: Security Perspectives For the Republic of Turkey in the Post Cold War Era
This thesis explores the security interests of the Republic of Turkey in the post-Cold War era. Tracing the evolution of Turkey's entry into NATO and its place in the Cold War structure of containment, it argues that the aggressive approach the United States took following the end of World War II …
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Transatlantic relations -- are alliances a function of an external threat?
… the heritage of a large number of international alliances and institutions that were founded at a time when there was a bipolar world, a world dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union. Today fourteen years after the end of the Cold War, some national leaders question the continued …