Author : Bradford Waldie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (126 download)
Book Synopsis Friendship and Firepower by : Bradford Waldie
Download or read book Friendship and Firepower written by Bradford Waldie and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States are motivated to do what they can in the present to prepare for long-term threats to their survival. The possibility of facing an overwhelming threat encourages interstate cooperation in the present, but ensuring long-term commitment among states is non-trivial, especially when the cause for cooperation is distant and ill-defined. Despite the challenges posed by both anarchy and uncertainty, states have developed institutions to enhance long-term cooperation, process uncertainty and create a group of like-minded states ready and willing to come to their defense. Some of these security integration institutions, such as alliances, are well known. Others, such as joint military exercises and defense cooperation agreements, are less commonly analyzed. Two of the papers in this three paper dissertation identify understudied security institutions, weapons coproduction and overseas military basing, and present a mix of data sources and methods to show how states utilize these institutions to increase their security ties. The third paper in the dissertation presents a novel measure of security alignment that aggregates existing data on security cooperation and accurately captures security relationships in the international system. Taken together, the papers in this project increase our understanding of how states act in the present to create long-term security commitment among like-minded states.
