{"title":"4 Great Powers and Strategic Constraints The Bismarckian Era, 1873–1890","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628571-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628571-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"25 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":"131616144","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/9781503628434.003.0001
R. Kuo
{"title":"Transhistorical Patterns in Alliance Strategy","authors":"R. Kuo","doi":"10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Given the dangers of war, states should carefully tailor their alliances to specific threats and constraints. We expect wide variety in security strategies and pact designs. This expectation is wrong. In any year, 75 percent of states pursue identical alliance strategies. Why do countries ignore their individuated conditions and converge on a single dominant alliance strategy? This chapter presents the book’s puzzle, describing patterns in alliance design from 1715–2003.","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"94 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":"131165475","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/9781503628434.003.0004
R. Kuo
{"title":"Great Powers and Strategic Constraints","authors":"R. Kuo","doi":"10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"The book’s first case study demonstrates how the dominant strategy constrains even the great powers’ alliance choices. It explores the core European pacts between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia from 1873–1890. These countries repeatedly established alliances to solidify their security relations, and they repeatedly failed. Austria-Hungary prevented Germany from displacing it from the heart of Berlin’s alliance strategy. Consequently, these three conservative empires were unable to manage deep, intra-allied disputes. Network constraints prevented the fluid, transactional balancing strategies, contributing to World War I’s onset.","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":"132648755","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":"8 The Dominant Alliance Strategy Policy Implications and Theoretical Extensions","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628571-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628571-009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"48 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":"114584208","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":"Appendix Texts of Relevant Security Treaties","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628571-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628571-010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"8 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":"121669146","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":"7 The Dominant Strategy and Alliance Failure","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628571-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628571-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"48 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":"131708342","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":"2 The Theory of Strategic Alliance Diffusion","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628571-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628571-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"118 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":"134411523","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":"5 Cold War Credibility NATO, SEATO, and CENTO, 1949–1965","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628571-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628571-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"82 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":"128820871","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/9781503628434.003.0006
R. Kuo
{"title":"Diffusion to the Periphery","authors":"R. Kuo","doi":"10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"The final case details the role of alliance construction in southern Africa’s status-building policy following the Cold War. Suddenly bereft of superpower patronage, these countries viewed NATO and Europe more broadly as the most effective strategy to foster military security and economic development in their region. But southern Africa was politically unsuited to such a strategy, leading states to seize alliance leadership to advance their own unilateral policies. These countries nevertheless continued to model NATO to legitimate their security strategy and foreign policy goals.","PeriodicalId":166648,"journal":{"name":"Following the Leader","volume":"17 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":"130988955","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":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628571-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628571-013","url":null,"abstract":"","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":"116759030","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}