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Following the Leader - International Order, Alliance Strategies, and Emulation (Hardcover)
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Following the Leader - International Order, Alliance Strategies, and Emulation (Hardcover)
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Nations have powerful reasons to get their military alliances
right. When security pacts go well, they underpin regional and
global order; when they fail, they spread wars across continents as
states are dragged into conflict. We would, therefore, expect
states to carefully tailor their military partnerships to specific
conditions. This expectation, Raymond C. Kuo argues, is wrong.
Following the Leader argues that most countries ignore their
individual security interests in military pacts, instead converging
on a single, dominant alliance strategy. The book introduces a new
social theory of strategic diffusion and emulation, using case
studies and advanced statistical analysis of alliances from 1815 to
2003. In the wake of each major war that shatters the international
system, a new hegemon creates a core military partnership to target
its greatest enemy. Secondary and peripheral countries rush to
emulate this alliance, illustrating their credibility and prestige
by mimicking the dominant form. Be it the NATO model that seems so
commonsense today, or the realpolitik that reigned in Europe of the
late nineteenth century, a lone alliance strategy has defined broad
swaths of diplomatic history. It is not states' own security
interests driving this phenomenon, Kuo shows, but their jockeying
for status in a world periodically remade by great powers.
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