When Collaboration Works High Politics and Realism’s Renaissance in Arms Collaboration Studies
The theoretical benefits of shared development costs and interoperability in armaments collaborations have led to an increase in cooperative projects, and the policy’s popularity is only likely to grow. Nevertheless, most states fail to achieve their desired levels of collaboration. The question mus...
Saved in:
Published in | European review of international studies Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 18 - 42 |
---|---|
Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Leiden
Verlag Barbara Budrich
2019
Brill Brill Academic Publishers, Inc |
Subjects | |
Online Access | Get full text |
Cover
Loading…
Abstract | The theoretical benefits of shared development costs and interoperability in armaments collaborations have led to an increase in cooperative projects, and the policy’s popularity is only likely to grow. Nevertheless, most states fail to achieve their desired levels of collaboration. The question must therefore be raised as to what factors favour partnerships’ success. We argue that realist dynamics play a more significant role than hitherto appreciated. International armaments collaboration is a fundamentally difficult process. Major projects cost significant sums and often require decades to complete. Multiple stakeholders, ranging from military headquarters to corporate managers, may calculate that cooperation no longer serves their interests. Governments therefore need powerful incentives to overcome domestic opposition for collaboration to succeed. Realist interests – notably, the sense of collectively balancing against threats – provide governments with the requisite motivation to overcome domestic discontent. States within alliances stand to benefit more from collaboration because they alone profit from collaboration’s interoperability advantages. Alliances, furthermore, offer assurances in terms of supply security – sometimes through formal arrangements and at others through states’ common interest in not jeopardising the alliance – that mitigate this risk. Realist concerns, as expressed in formal alliances, thus incentivise governments to steer projects through to completion. |
---|---|
AbstractList | The theoretical benefits of shared development costs and interoperability in armaments collaborations have led to an increase in cooperative projects, and the policy's popularity is only likely to grow. Nevertheless, most states fail to achieve their desired levels of collaboration. The question must therefore be raised as to what factors favour partnerships' success. We argue that realist dynamics play a more significant role than hitherto appreciated. International armaments collaboration is a fundamentally difficult process. Major projects cost significant sums and often require decades to complete. Multiple stakeholders, ranging from military headquarters to corporate managers, may calculate that cooperation no longer serves their interests. Governments therefore need powerful incentives to overcome domestic opposition for collaboration to succeed. Realist interests - notably, the sense of collectively balancing against threats - provide governments with the requisite motivation to overcome domestic discontent. States within alliances stand to benefit more from collaboration because they alone profit from collaboration's interoperability advantages. Alliances, furthermore, offer assurances in terms of supply security - sometimes through formal arrangements and at others through states' common interest in not jeopardising the alliance - that mitigate this risk. Realist concerns, as expressed in formal alliances, thus incentivise governments to steer projects through to completion. Keywords: Armaments collaboration, defence industries, NATO, European integration, realism The theoretical benefits of shared development costs and interoperability in armaments collaborations have led to an increase in cooperative projects, and the policy's popularity is only likely to grow. Nevertheless, most states fail to achieve their desired levels of collaboration. The question must therefore be raised as to what factors favour partnerships' success. We argue that realist dynamics play a more significant role than hitherto appreciated. International armaments collaboration is a fundamentally difficult process. Major projects cost significant sums and often require decades to complete. Multiple stakeholders, ranging from military headquarters to corporate managers, may calculate that cooperation no longer serves their interests. Governments therefore need powerful incentives to overcome domestic opposition for collaboration to succeed. Realist interests – notably, the sense of collectively balancing against threats – provide governments with the requisite motivation to overcome domestic discontent. States within alliances stand to benefit more from collaboration because they alone profit from collaboration's interoperability advantages. Alliances, furthermore, offer assurances in terms of supply security – sometimes through formal arrangements and at others through states' common interest in not jeopardising the alliance – that mitigate this risk. Realist concerns, as expressed in formal alliances, thus incentivise governments to steer projects through to completion. |
Audience | Academic |
Author | DeVore, Marc R. Stai, Nora Kristine |
Author_xml | – sequence: 1 givenname: Marc R. surname: DeVore fullname: DeVore, Marc R. – sequence: 2 givenname: Nora Kristine surname: Stai fullname: Stai, Nora Kristine |
BookMark | eNotUEtLw0AQXqSCtfbmwYtQ8Jy4r0wyx1J8QcGL0mPYbHbrxjRbd1PBf-9Cyhy-b4bvAXNNZoMfDCG3jOaCc_logov5LzieU35B5pwhZKVkxezMAbm4IssYO0op40xIoHNyt_syw2rj-141PqjR-WG18-E73pBLq_polmdckM_np4_Na7Z9f3nbrLfZnhU4ZhVYS7XFAiVaEFYiVS2DhlNpTVPICtsSWivSZlgjUjPaVgOi1mXVilIsyMOUewz-52TiWHf-FIZUWXMhKsYkIiZVPqn2qje1G6wfg9JpWnNwOj3CunRfA-OAhRQyGe4nQxdHH-pjcAcV_moOFdASqPgHzeNYmg |
ContentType | Journal Article |
Copyright | COPYRIGHT 2019 Brill Copyright Verlag Barbara Budrich 2019 |
Copyright_xml | – notice: COPYRIGHT 2019 Brill – notice: Copyright Verlag Barbara Budrich 2019 |
DBID | 7UB |
DOI | 10.3224/eris.v6i2.02 |
DatabaseName | Worldwide Political Science Abstracts |
DatabaseTitle | Worldwide Political Science Abstracts |
DatabaseTitleList | Worldwide Political Science Abstracts |
DeliveryMethod | fulltext_linktorsrc |
Discipline | International Relations |
EISSN | 2196-7415 |
EndPage | 42 |
ExternalDocumentID | A612695434 26860760 |
GeographicLocations | Europe |
GeographicLocations_xml | – name: Europe |
GroupedDBID | -1U AAGYD AAMSU ABBHK ABDBF ABJNI ABNTP ABXSQ ADOBN ADTJH ADULT AEALX AETXW AEUPB ALJKW ALMA_UNASSIGNED_HOLDINGS AOGPY BBTKD CGUGG EBS EJD HISYW IAO IER JAAYA JADSL JENOY JICEH JKQEH JLEZI JLXEF JPL JSODD JST KOBVO RHO SA0 X4A 7UB AAYUO ABUYI ADACV AHYGR ITC |
ID | FETCH-LOGICAL-g159t-86ff0cf95949f63f490ad16b204feb5489d76df34fee1b30019fdc699cc78d373 |
ISSN | 2196-6923 |
IngestDate | Thu Oct 10 20:51:54 EDT 2024 Fri Feb 02 04:23:14 EST 2024 Fri Feb 02 08:03:56 EST 2024 |
IsPeerReviewed | true |
IsScholarly | true |
Issue | 2 |
Language | English |
LinkModel | OpenURL |
MergedId | FETCHMERGED-LOGICAL-g159t-86ff0cf95949f63f490ad16b204feb5489d76df34fee1b30019fdc699cc78d373 |
PQID | 2338114999 |
PQPubID | 2039411 |
PageCount | 25 |
ParticipantIDs | proquest_journals_2338114999 gale_infotracacademiconefile_A612695434 jstor_primary_26860760 |
PublicationCentury | 2000 |
PublicationDate | 2019-00-00 |
PublicationDateYYYYMMDD | 2019-01-01 |
PublicationDate_xml | – year: 2019 text: 2019-00-00 |
PublicationDecade | 2010 |
PublicationPlace | Leiden |
PublicationPlace_xml | – name: Leiden |
PublicationTitle | European review of international studies |
PublicationYear | 2019 |
Publisher | Verlag Barbara Budrich Brill Brill Academic Publishers, Inc |
Publisher_xml | – name: Verlag Barbara Budrich – name: Brill – name: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc |
SSID | ssj0001213460 |
Score | 2.1237504 |
Snippet | The theoretical benefits of shared development costs and interoperability in armaments collaborations have led to an increase in cooperative projects, and the... |
SourceID | proquest gale jstor |
SourceType | Aggregation Database Publisher |
StartPage | 18 |
SubjectTerms | Alliances Analysis Collaboration Defense industry Discontent European cooperation Incentives Interest groups International cooperation Interoperability Military administration Military weapons Motivation Realism |
Subtitle | High Politics and Realism’s Renaissance in Arms Collaboration Studies |
Title | When Collaboration Works |
URI | https://www.jstor.org/stable/26860760 https://www.proquest.com/docview/2338114999 |
Volume | 6 |
hasFullText | 1 |
inHoldings | 1 |
isFullTextHit | |
isPrint | |
link | http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwnV3Pb9MwFLagu-yC-LGNwph8QNopJbETN-bWsk0T0jhMG9otsh0bRVoz1AQO_PW857hJWjgMLlFqqU7k78vze8_vswl5X2rNFBa3MmayKDUcvjnFbZQ77krcziX2h01cfRGXt-nnu-xuOG3Uq0taPTO__qor-R9UoQ1wRZXsPyDbdwoNcA_4whUQhuujMAZLWvvQf0ASk9--yg0LODbVbU2QIeJmhyufob-2tYIh93oBzHisV81OR-MCw93M_aB3qbYSis12UeKZ_RqqeK9wR4B-TQkc3CqsGalgZcLifkg_jMzbcl3d3w_WCiyfiITsxMMzO7ShyzI2t2LEKjYynZ0Z3rXoYG9SxBbVDz9FxWYxG2auvp5wAX6akKiSfUr22BzuJmRvsTxbXozybQlPvWi8f9NOB4FP-DDuv5-cuwLVPyZp73ncPCfPQshAFx3-L8gTW78kR1upXNrXNL4iBbKCboFJPSs-UuQE3XCCAido4MRpQ0eMoFVNkRE7nQRGHJDbi_ObT5dROEYj-ga-ahvlwrnYOJnJVDrBXSpjVSZCszh1VkPEKsu5KB2HXzbRHJ1-VxohpTHzvORzfkgm9UNtXxOasSzXLoYJFM-DL2PprFOKQQzhjE4SMyWnOHQFItiulVFB4wH_xm3GigGnKTn0o1t87zZVKZjIBa4ST8nxZriL8Kk1BePgWCYYnL959BPekn3ka5cuOyaTdv3DvgMHstUngRu_AelLdgU |
link.rule.ids | 315,786,790,4043,27954,27955,27956 |
linkProvider | EBSCOhost |
openUrl | ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=When+Collaboration+Works%3A+High+Politics+and+Realism%27s+Renaissance+in+Arms+Collaboration+Studies&rft.jtitle=European+review+of+international+studies&rft.au=DeVore%2C+Marc+R&rft.au=Stai%2C+Nora+Kristine&rft.date=2019&rft.pub=Brill&rft.issn=2196-6923&rft.eissn=2196-7415&rft.volume=6&rft.issue=2&rft.spage=18&rft_id=info:doi/10.3224%2Feris.v6i2.02&rft.externalDocID=A612695434 |
thumbnail_l | http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/lc.gif&issn=2196-6923&client=summon |
thumbnail_m | http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/mc.gif&issn=2196-6923&client=summon |
thumbnail_s | http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/sc.gif&issn=2196-6923&client=summon |