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 fundame…
"John F. Kennedy and Europe offers a collection of essays by both participants in and scholars of United States policy toward Europe from 1961 to 1963. The essays treat such important topics as Kennedy's relationships with European leaders, his administration's Italian and Portu…
Timothy W. Crawford's The Power to Divide examines the use of wedge strategies, a form of divisive statecraft designed to isolate adversaries from allies and potential supporters to gain key advantages. With a multidimensional argument about the power of accommodation in competi…
"[This book] explains how states use 'wedge strategies' to divide adversaries. It examines history of great power alliance politics around World Wars I and II and, in present context of great power competition, considers a Chinese strategy to divide U.S. and India and a U.S. str…
"[This book] explains how states use 'wedge strategies' to divide adversaries. It examines history of great power alliance politics around World Wars I and II and, in present context of great power competition, considers a Chinese strategy to divide U.S. and India and a U.S. str…
"In May 1608, several Protestant rulers in the Holy Roman Empire convened an emergency summit in the Swabian town of Auhausen. Weeks earlier, they had walked out of the Imperial Diet, the Empire's main legislative assembly, to protest what they deemed Catholic attempts to underm…
"In May 1608, several Protestant rulers in the Holy Roman Empire convened an emergency summit in the Swabian town of Auhausen. Weeks earlier, they had walked out of the Imperial Diet, the Empire's main legislative assembly, to protest what they deemed Catholic attempts to underm…
"In May 1608, several Protestant rulers in the Holy Roman Empire convened an emergency summit in the Swabian town of Auhausen. Weeks earlier, they had walked out of the Imperial Diet, the Empire's main legislative assembly, to protest what they deemed Catholic attempts to underm…
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dozens of alliances asserting shared sovereignty formed in the Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries. Many accounts of state formation struggle to explain these leagues, since they characterize state formation as a process of int…
Inhaltsverzeichnis: The Swabian League and the politics of alliance (1488-1534) -- Alliances and the early Reformation (1526-1545) -- Alliances and new visions for the Empire and Low Countries (1540-1556) -- Shared sovereignty and regional peace (1552-1567) -- Shared sovereignty…
"In May 1608, several Protestant rulers in the Holy Roman Empire convened an emergency summit in the Swabian town of Auhausen. Weeks earlier, they had walked out of the Imperial Diet, the Empire's main legislative assembly, to protest what they deemed Catholic attempts to underm…
"In May 1608, several Protestant rulers in the Holy Roman Empire convened an emergency summit in the Swabian town of Auhausen. Weeks earlier, they had walked out of the Imperial Diet, the Empire's main legislative assembly, to protest what they deemed Catholic attempts to underm…
"Global action and regulation is increasingly the result of the interplay between formality and informality. From the management of State conduct in international security to the coordination of national policies in climate change, international organizations work ever closer wi…
"Global action and regulation is increasingly the result of the interplay between formality and informality. From the management of State conduct in international security to the coordination of national policies in climate change, international organizations work ever closer wi…
