{"title":"6 Diffusion to the Periphery Security Cooperation in Southern Africa, 1992– 2004","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628571-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628571-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116962973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628571-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628571-001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129294250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628571-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628571-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115035422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Following the LeaderPub Date : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0007
R. Kuo
{"title":"The Dominant Strategy and Alliance Failure","authors":"R. Kuo","doi":"10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Copying the dominant strategy reduces the risk of alliance failure by one-third. This chapter leverages statistical methods to link emulation to security behavior. Military partnerships are more reliable and cohesive when they converge on a single, socially accepted standard of credible and legitimate cooperation. Scholars often assume that institutionalization enhances reliability. This chapter demonstrates that such assumption is only true when the core alliance is itself institutionalized. If not, formal coordination can increase the risk of alliance failure by 26.46 percent.","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127918499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Following the LeaderPub Date : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0008
R. Kuo
{"title":"The Dominant Alliance Strategy","authors":"R. Kuo","doi":"10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This concluding chapter calls for a “NATO in Asia” as the only credible demonstration of American commitment to the region against an assertive China. It draws out policy implications from the theory for international order, the feasibility and drawbacks of transactional foreign policies, and major war.","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121958511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Following the LeaderPub Date : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0005
R. Kuo
{"title":"Cold War Credibility","authors":"R. Kuo","doi":"10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The second case highlights how Middle East and Southeast Asian countries pushed the United States to create NATO-like security institutions in their regions early in the Cold War. These countries evaluated American reliability based on alliance emulation: only strategies matching NATO’s design signaled commitment. Washington’s refusal to adopt the Atlantic Alliance’s strategy in other alliances undermined efforts to demonstrate resolve and consolidate power against the Soviet Union.","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130534059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Following the LeaderPub Date : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0003
R. Kuo
{"title":"The Diffusion of Alliance Strategy","authors":"R. Kuo","doi":"10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter uses quantitative analysis to determine that the core alliance systematically produces the dominant strategy. Seven statistical tests probe the theory’s causal foundations and mechanisms, providing reinforcing support for the book’s argument. The dominant strategy is statistically linked to social proof and validation, credibility concerns, international norms, and legitimacy.","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130029360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1 Transhistorical Patterns in Alliance Strategy","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628571-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628571-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125197237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3 The Diffusion of Alliance Strategy Systemic Patterns and Evidence","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628571-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628571-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132552401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Following the LeaderPub Date : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0002
R. Kuo
{"title":"The Theory of Strategic Alliance Diffusion","authors":"R. Kuo","doi":"10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers a social theory of diffusion to explain the dominant alliance strategy. Major wars shatter the international system. Into this breach, a new hegemon creates a core pact targeting its central security challenge. This partnership becomes the standard for credible and legitimate security policy in the postwar environment. Secondary countries copy its strategy to demonstrate the credibility of their own alliances. Peripheral nations emulate to acquire international status and prestige.","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132695945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}