TY - JOUR
T1 - Threat and alignment behavior
AU - Iusi Scarborough, Grace E.
AU - De Mesquita, Bruce Bueno
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1988/2
Y1 - 1988/2
N2 - Alliance formation and termination are examined in the context of the impact of international threats on efforts to enhance national security. Threats against allies are shown to provide diagnostic information about the prospects that a state will be threatened. This diagnostic information is shown to lead to more sucessful national security-enhancing actions than do threats against the state itself. The theoretical foundation on which the analysis is based is an expected utility approach to conflict decision making. The empirical domain is the European system from 1816 to 1965.
AB - Alliance formation and termination are examined in the context of the impact of international threats on efforts to enhance national security. Threats against allies are shown to provide diagnostic information about the prospects that a state will be threatened. This diagnostic information is shown to lead to more sucessful national security-enhancing actions than do threats against the state itself. The theoretical foundation on which the analysis is based is an expected utility approach to conflict decision making. The empirical domain is the European system from 1816 to 1965.
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U2 - 10.1080/03050628808434691
DO - 10.1080/03050628808434691
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037740834
SN - 0305-0629
VL - 14
SP - 85
EP - 93
JO - International Interactions
JF - International Interactions
IS - 1
ER -