To Protect and to Serve: Alliances and Foreign Policy Portfolios

• Published in: The Journal of conflict resolution Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 180 - 203
• Main Authors: Morgan, T. Clifton, Palmer, Glenn
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 01.04.2003; SAGE Publications
• Subjects: Alliances; Conflict; Conflict resolution; Defense Spending; Foreign aid; Foreign Policy; International Alliances; International relations; Maintenance costs; Military alliances; Military expenditure; Military Intervention; Military spending; Policy analysis; Quadrants; Terms of trade; War; alliances; substitutability; military spending; conflict

The consequences of alliance formation for other foreign policies of a state, including defense spending and the initiation of militarized disputes, are examined using a theory of foreign policy that is based on several assumptions. First, states pursue two goods-change (defending those aspects of t...