Constructing Allied Cooperation

E. Henke Marina

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How do states overcome problems of collective action in the face of human atrocities, terrorism and the threat of weapons of mass destruction? How does international burden-sharing in this context look like: between the rich and the poor; the big and the small? These are the questions Marina E. Henke addresses in her new book Constructing Allied Cooperation. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis of 80 multilateral military coalitions, Henke demonstrates that coalitions do not emerge naturally. Rather, pivotal states deliberately build them. They develop operational plans and bargain suitable third parties into the coalition, purposefully using their bilateral and multilateral diplomatic connections-what Henke terms diplomatic embeddedness-as a resource. As Constructing Allied Cooperation shows, these ties constitute an invaluable state capability to engage others in collective action: they are tools to construct cooperation.Pulling apart the strategy behind multilateral military coalition-building, Henke looks at the ramifications and side effects as well. As she notes, via these ties, pivotal states have access to private information on the deployment preferences of potential coalition participants. Moreover, they facilitate issue-linkages and side-payments and allow states to overcome problems of credible commitments. Finally, pivotal states can use common institutional contacts (IO officials) as cooperation brokers, and they can convert common institutional venues into fora for negotiating coalitions.The theory and evidence presented by Henke force us to revisit the conventional wisdom on how cooperation in multilateral military operations comes about. The author generates new insights with respect to who is most likely to join a given multilateral intervention, what factors influence the strength and capacity of individual coalitions, and what diplomacy and diplomatic ties are good for. Moreover, as the Trump administration promotes an "America First" policy and withdraws from international agreements and the United Kingdom completes Brexit, Constructing Allied Cooperation is an important reminder that international security cannot be delinked from more mundane forms of cooperation; multilateral military coalitions thrive or fail depending on the breadth and depth of existing social and diplomatic networks.

Sujets

• Diplomacy
• Military history
• International relations
• Diplomatie (homonymie)

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501739705
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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CONSTRUCTING ALLIED COOPERATION

CONSTRUCTING ALLIED COOPERATION Diplomacy, Payments, and Power in Multilateral Military Coalitions

Marina E. Henke

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON

Cornell University Press gratefully acknowledges receipt of a grant from the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, which aided in the publication of this book.

Copyright © 2019 by Cornell University

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First published 2019 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Henke, Marina E., 1982– author. Title: Constructing allied cooperation : diplomacy, payments, and power in  multilateral military coalitions / Marina E. Henke. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical  references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018053745 (print) | LCCN 2018054967 (ebook) |  ISBN 9781501739705 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501739712 (epub/mobi) |  ISBN 9781501739699 | ISBN 9781501739699– (cloth: alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Combined operations (Military science)—Political aspects. |  Intervention (International law)—Political aspects. | Security,  International—International cooperation. | International  relations—Political aspects. Classification: LCC U260 (ebook) | LCC U260. H44 2019 (print) | DDC  355/.031—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018053745

Jacket artwork by Lisk Feng

For my parents

But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their selflove in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of. Adam Smith,Wealth of Nations

Contents

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments

1. The Puzzle of Organizing Collective Action 2. Constructing Multilateral Military Coalitions 3. A Quantitative Test: What Factors Influence Multilateral Military Coalition Building? 4. Chaining Communists: The Korean War (1950–1953) 5. Saving Darfur: UNAMID (2007–) 6. Fighting for Independence in East Timor: INTERFET (1999–2000) 7. Resisting Rebels in Chad and the Central African Republic: EUFOR ChadCAR (2008–2009) 8. Power, Diplomacy, and Diplomatic Networks

Notes Bibliography Index

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Figures and Tables

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2.1 enceeferensiintubittsirfrpnooheotypHdilcatingestimoa members of the international community regarding the launch of a specific intervention 2.2 Factors impacting search process 2.3 Proposed causal mechanism 2.4 What is diplomatic embeddedness? 3.1 Substantive effects of statistical analysis (U.S. coalitions only) 3.2 lysis(aicalanaitnollcaoilefeivnttabsSutsitatsfostcef contributions) 3.3 Substantive effects excluding token contributions

Tables

2.1 Macrocase variation 2.2 Microcase variation 2.3 Summary of theoretical expectations 2.4 Summary of observable implications 3.1 Regression results: Lake (2009) replication 3.2 Regression results: New dataset 3.3 Pivotal states in select conflict theaters 3.4 Regression results: All multilateral coalitions 4.1 Results of case study: Korean War 5.1 Results of case study: UNAMID 6.1 Results of case study: INTERFET 7.1 Results of case study: EUFOR ChadCAR 8.1 Summary results of microcases (1) 8.2 Summary results of microcases (2)

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