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Author : Chae-ho Chŏng
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2008
Category : China
ISBN : 9780231139076
Definitive study on China's relations with the Korean peninsula since the 1970's, concentrating on the bourgeoning relationship between the Chinese and South Korean governments, societies, and business communities.
Author : Michael Wesley
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1760461180
The global system of alliances that the United States built after the Second World War underpinned the stability and prosperity of the postwar order. But during the 20th century, the multilateral NATO alliance system in Europe and the bilateral San Francisco alliance system in Asia rarely interacted. This changed in the early 21st century, as US allies came together to fight and stabilise conflicts in the Middle East and Central Asia. This volume presents the first-ever comparative study of US alliances in Europe and Asia from the perspectives of US allies: the challenges, opportunities and shifting dynamics of these fundamental pillars of order. This volume is essential reading for those interested in contemporary and future regional and global security dynamics.
Author : Mayumi Fukushima
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN :
This dissertation is the first systematic analysis of variation in alliance behavior in the context of asymmetric international security alliances. When weak states ally with stronger states - i.e. states with significantly greater military capabilities - what explains differences in the junior party's approach to the alliance relationship? Why do some junior allies show their strong willingness to coordinate their military policy with their senior partner, whereas others distance themselves from their senior partner? Why do some grow more dependent on their senior partner for security, while others pursue their own deterrent to reduce their dependence? Their military dependence is not necessarily determined by structural factors, as states generally have some room for maneuver to decide on the level of resources they extract for national security from their overall economic and technological capacity. This variation in alliance behavior deserves scholarly attention, because these differences affect their senior partner's alliance management costs, including the chance of alliance entrapment - i.e. getting dragged into an unwanted war due to a junior ally's problematic behavior. When a senior partner has vested interests in the asymmetric alliances that advance its own interests, its junior partners, as parties to the alliance contracts, also have the power to "manipulate" their senior partner with a variety of strategies to maximize what are often noninstitutionalized benefits from their security relationships. To explain the variation in the junior partner's approach, the dissertation proposes a Theory of Asymmetric Alliance Strategy, a new paradigm for understanding four types of junior partner alliance behavior and strategy. In essence, their differences are based upon differences relating to the two most contentious and yet core issues of alliance management - the junior ally's degree of dependence for security and its level of coordination with the senior partner. As junior allies choose one of the two opposing approaches to each of these two core issues, there are four different, mutually exclusive strategies: [More Dependent, Reluctant Coordination], [More Dependent, Proactive Coordination], [Less Dependent, Proactive Coordination], and [Less Dependent, Reluctant Coordination], which I call Cheap-riding, Rescue-compelling, Favor-currying, and Autonomy-seeking, respectively. The Theory posits that the following three factors determine a junior partner's choice of alliance strategy: (1) perceived senior partner commitments to fighting the adversary by force; (2) the junior partner's "revisionist" goal - i.e. a goal of changing the local distribution of power and goods by force; and (3) the local balance of power. Particularly problematic from a senior partner's perspective is the Rescue-compelling strategy, which is driven by weak or weakened security commitments a junior ally perceives when it faces a local balance of power shifting in favor of its adversary. A junior ally utilizing this strategy can make a crisis escalation more likely and cause serious consequences including a costly war. By explaining the sources of the variation in alliance strategy and identifying risks associated with security partnerships with some types of junior allies, the dissertation helps better anticipate the costs of offering new security commitments to other states as well as those of withdrawing, or threatening to withdraw, existing commitments.
Author : Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
Publisher :
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Alliances
ISBN : 9781584872610
One of the greatest challenges facing the United States today is the translation of its overwhelming might into effective influence. Traditionally, the United States has leveraged its power through bilateral and multilateral alliances. However, the end of the Cold War and the events of September 11, 2001, have led some policymakers and analysts to question the value of alliances in American foreign and defense policy. This monograph advocates that allies are more important than ever to the achievement of U.S. national security goals.
Author : Sheryl Sandberg
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 34,30 MB
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0385349955
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A landmark manifesto" (The New York Times) that's a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential. In her famed TED talk, Sheryl Sandberg described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than eleven million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto. Lean In continues that conversation, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what they can. Sandberg, COO of Meta (previously called Facebook) from 2008-2022, provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career. She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment, and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women both in the workplace and at home.
Author : Rajan Menon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : History
ISBN :
In The End of Alliances, Menon offers a bold new vision of the future of American--and global--foreign affairs, one that does not include familiar, contractual agreements amongst states. Yet, contrary to prevailing wisdom, Menon argues, a world without US-led alliances will not be marked by American isolationism, a divorce between Europe and America, or total global upheaval. Instead, in place of rigid military pacts, countries will enter into contingent alignments and specific coalitions created for particular ends.
Author : Fotini Christia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139851756
Some of the most brutal and long-lasting civil wars of our time involve the rapid formation and disintegration of alliances among warring groups, as well as fractionalization within them. It would be natural to suppose that warring groups form alliances based on shared identity considerations - such as Christian groups allying with Christian groups - but this is not what we see. Two groups that identify themselves as bitter foes one day, on the basis of some identity narrative, might be allies the next day and vice versa. Nor is any group, however homogeneous, safe from internal fractionalization. Rather, looking closely at the civil wars in Afghanistan and Bosnia and testing against the broader universe of fifty-three cases of multiparty civil wars, Fotini Christia finds that the relative power distribution between and within various warring groups is the primary driving force behind alliance formation, alliance changes, group splits and internal group takeovers.
Author : Jeffrey Raff
Publisher : Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0892546026
Jeffrey Raff has written about the ally (which has been called many different names in different traditions) in his books Jung and the Alchemical Imagination, Healing the Wounded God, and The Wedding of Sophia. Here, he shares with readers the techniques he has developed and taught in his workshops and lectures for achieving intimate contact with the divine. The ally is a divine being, a face of God, that is unique to every being. It appears in the imaginal realm to partner with a specific person/ but it has to wait for its human partner to seek it. The person has to learn how to enter the imaginal realm to meet and relate with the ally, and to that effect, Raff has designed a progressive series of exercises. Starting with imagination-building practices, he takes you through learning how to identify your ally, learning its name, and obtaining guidance from it. Intermediate and advanced exercises teach you how to deepen your relationship with the ally and bring it into everyday life. A relationship with your ally is a two-way street in that your attention to its existence in the imaginal realm makes it manifest in the material world, while the ally helps you achieve self-realization and gnosis in the literal sense of the word.
Author : Stephen M. Walt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 2013-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801469996
How are alliances made? In this book, Stephen M. Walt makes a significant contribution to this topic, surveying theories of the origins of international alliances and identifying the most important causes of security cooperation between states. In addition, he proposes a fundamental change in the present conceptions of alliance systems. Contrary to traditional balance-of-power theories, Walt shows that states form alliances not simply to balance power but in order to balance threats. Walt begins by outlining five general hypotheses about the causes of alliances. Drawing upon diplomatic history and a detailed study of alliance formation in the Middle East between 1955 and 1979, he demonstrates that states are more likely to join together against threats than they are to ally themselves with threatening powers. Walt also examines the impact of ideology on alliance preferences and the role of foreign aid and transnational penetration. His analysis show, however, that these motives for alignment are relatively less important. In his conclusion, he examines the implications of "balance of threat" for U.S. foreign policy.
Author : Michael Knights
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0755643046
The U.S.-led effort to fight the Islamic State in northeastern Syria since 2014 has been as controversial and poorly understood as it has been significant. Advocates of fighting “by, with and through” the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) view the campaign as a near-ideal case study of a cost-effective U.S. military intervention that should be duplicated in the future. Critics of the campaign say that the U.S. allied itself with a terrorist group and endangered its ties with Turkey, a long-stranding NATO partner; losing sight of strategic priorities in order to win tactical victories at low cost. This book combines general research with 50 interviews gathered in Syria with Kurdish, Arab and Christian SDF officers, and 50 interviews with U.S. and French officials and military officers with on-the-ground involvement in the war. It provides an unprecedented window into how the war was really prosecuted, in the eyes of the participants at all levels, uniquely looking not only at how U.S. soldiers view their partner forces, but how the local partners view them in return. This is a unique and essential insight into US strategy in Syria and beyond.