The burden-sharing dilemma : coercive diplomacy in US alliance politics /

"Presenting a theoretical explanation for why great power patrons pursue burden-sharing and why such efforts succeed or fail, this book challenges recent domestic frustration against a seeming lack of allied burden-sharing and offers insights into contemporary US alliance politics forefronted b...

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Main Authors: Blankenship, Brian D., 1990- (Author)
Published: Cornell University Press,
Publisher Address: Ithaca, NY :
Publication Dates: 2023.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Cornell studies in security affairs
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Summary: "Presenting a theoretical explanation for why great power patrons pursue burden-sharing and why such efforts succeed or fail, this book challenges recent domestic frustration against a seeming lack of allied burden-sharing and offers insights into contemporary US alliance politics forefronted by conflicts and tensions in Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and elsewhere"--
Carrier Form: x, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781501772474
1501772473
Index Number: JZ1314
CLC: D871.29
Call Number: D871.29/B642
Contents: The strategic logic of coercive burden-sharing -- "A legitimate role in the defense of the alliance, but on a leash": West German burden-sharing, 1961-1974 -- "Between Scylla and Charybdis": the US-Japan alliance, 1964-1976 -- "They live at our sufferance": the US-South Korea alliance, 1964-1980 -- Is Iceland blackmailing us?": Icelandic burden-sharing, 1949-1960.