Paul Poast

Arguing About Alliances

The Art of Agreement in Military-Pact Negotiations

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Produktbeschreibung

Why do some attempts to conclude alliance treaties end in failure? From the inability of European powers to form an alliance that would stop Hitler in the 1930s, to the present inability of Ukraine to join NATO, states frequently attempt but fail to form alliance treaties. In Arguing about Alliances, Paul Poast sheds new light on the purpose of...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 277
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 238mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781501740244
• ISBN-10: 1501740245
• Artikelnr.: 54812350

Autorenporträt

Paul Poast is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is author of The Economics of War and co-author of Organizing Democracy. Follow him on X @ProfPaulPoast.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Fragility of Alliance Diplomacy
1. A Theory of Alliance Treaty Negotiation Outcome
2. Measuring War Planning and Negotiation Outcomes
3. Analyzing Alliance Treaty Negotiation Outcome
4. A Key Nonagreement: The 1901 Anglo-German Negotiations
5. An Important Agreement: The 1948-49 North Atlantic Treaty Negotiations
Conclusion: Negotiations and the Future of Alliance Studies
Notes
Bibliography
Index