Politics of Military Coalitions Wolford Scott
Politics of Military Coalitions Wolford Scott Military coalitions are ubiquitous. When do states build them, and what partners do they choose? The United States builds them regularly, yet they are…
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Politics of Military Coalitions Wolford Scott
Military coalitions are ubiquitous. When do states build them, and what partners do they choose? The United States builds them regularly, yet they are associated with the largest, most destructive, and consequential wars in history.
Finally, when do coalitions affect the expansion of conflict beyond its original participants? Are coalitions a recipe for war, or can they facilitate peace? The Politics of Military Coalitions introduces newly collected data designed to answer these very questions, showing that coalitions - expensive to build but attractive from a military standpoint - are very often more (if sometimes less) than the sum of their parts, at times encouraging war while discouraging it at others, at times touching off wider wars while at others keeping their targets isolated.
The combination of new data, new formal theories, and new quantitative analysis will be of interest to