The Supply Side of Security: A Market Theory of Military Alliances
Published:
13 April 2016
Online ISBN:
9780804798594
Print ISBN:
9780804796965
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Modes of Alliance Termination Modes of Alliance Termination
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Duration of Alliance Memberships Duration of Alliance Memberships
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Unipolarity and Reduced Supply of Military Protection Unipolarity and Reduced Supply of Military Protection
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Reduced Supply and Higher Price of Military Protection Reduced Supply and Higher Price of Military Protection
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More Alliances, More Exchanges, but Less Military Protection More Alliances, More Exchanges, but Less Military Protection
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Reactions of the Other States Reactions of the Other States
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Japan Japan
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Europe Europe
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South Korea South Korea
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Rivals of the United States Rivals of the United States
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Decline of Restraining Arrangements under Unipolarity Decline of Restraining Arrangements under Unipolarity
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International System and the Future of Alliance Politics International System and the Future of Alliance Politics
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Chapter
4 Alliance Politics and Polarity
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77–111
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Published:13 April 2016
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Kim, Tongfi, 'Alliance Politics and Polarity', The Supply Side of Security: A Market Theory of Military Alliances (Redwood City, CA , 2016; online edn, Stanford Scholarship Online, 19 Jan. 2017), https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804796965.003.0004, accessed 11 Oct. 2026.
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Abstract
This chapter empirically tests the argument presented in Chapter 3. In addition to intra-alliance bargaining power, it also examines the theory’s implications for the patterns of termination, duration, and formation of alliances in different systems. The chapter explains how much the structural shift from bipolarity to unipolarity has pushed American allies in favor of the superpower. The decline in the demand and supply of security in many parts of the world changed not only who forms alliances but also the goods exchanged within such alliances. The final section of this chapter discusses the theoretical implications of the systemic theory and offers some predictions about US alliances in the long and short terms.
Keywords:
polarity, the United States, China, alliance termination, alliance duration, alliance formation, bargaining power
Subject
International Relations
Collection:
Stanford Scholarship Online
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