Balance of Power or Balance of Threat: Revisiting Ottoman Alliance Politics before the Great War

The Ottoman alliance politics before the Great War has not been explored for theorizing alliance politics though it presents a unique example of alliance formation under external threat. Thus, in this article, a neo-realist balance of threat theory is utilized to examine the Ottoman decision to alig...

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Main Author: Dagi Dogachan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2018-12-01
Series:Open Political Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/openps-2018-0012