Playing It Safe: Audience Costs, Military Capabilities, and Alliance Reliability during War
What kinds of states make the best allies? This dissertation studies the determinants of defensive alliance reliability during war. I argue that strong democratic states constitute reliable allies. For these states, the miltiary costs of honoring an alliance agreement are sufficiently low, while pot...
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Florida State University
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Online Access: | http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-5387 |