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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"balance of threat"”.
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Partners in Peace and War: Theories of Alliance Formation and the Prospects of a Russia-China Alliance Explored
… alliances. Taking a theoretical overview of balance-of-power and balance-of-threat theories, the thesis looks at their application for two major powers that have a checkered history with each other, Russia and China, and determines the reasons for a potential alliance between them. …
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Rewiring the Spokes: The Future of U.S. Bilateralism in Asia
<p>Since the end of WWII, multilateralism has consistently grown as the go-to alliance structure for the United States. Despite this, 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, …
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To act as a Union : Explaining the development of the EU's collective foreign policy
… and increasingly act in unison towards the rest of the world. This PhD thesis seeks an explanation to this trend. It does so by initially painting a picture of when, in time, the volume and content of the Union's collective foreign policy changed during the thirty-year period between 1970 and …