Constructing Allied Cooperation: ​​Diplomacy, Payments and Power in Multilateral Military Coalitions

  • This book examines how diplomatic networks allow states to organize collective action. It thereby focuses on one of the areas of international cooperation where such collective action is the most difficult to achieve: multilateral military coalitions. The book argues that such coalitions seldom emerge naturally due to common interests, norms, values, or alliance commitments. Rather, coalitions are purposefully constructed by pivotal states. These states instrumentalize bilateral and multilateral networks, or what I term diplomatic embeddedness, to bargain fellow states into a specific coalition. Via these networks, pivotal states have access to private information on deployment preferences of potential coalition participants. Moreover, these connections facilitate issue-linkages and side-payments. Finally, pivotal states can use common institutional contacts (i.e., IO officials) as cooperation brokers and convert common institutional venues into coalition negotiation fora. The theory and evidence presented in this book generate new insights on how states cooperate in international affairs and the importance of diplomacy and diplomatic ties therein.

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Document Type:Book
Language:German
Author(s):Marina Henke
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Place of Publisher:Ithaca, New York
Publication year:2019
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
Number pages:258
ISBN:9781501739699
Release Date:2019/10/18
Tag:Diplomacy, Power, Military
Hertie School Research:Centre for International Security
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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