Choong-Nam Kang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Choong-Nam Kang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Choong-Nam |
| FAMILY NAME | Kang |
| SIGNATURE | KANG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murray State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Not Just Pooling, but Helping Generate Capabilities
This study explores sequential effects between alliances and member states’ capability growth. It argues that alliances have the effect of increasing member states’ economic and military capability growth. Alliances help member states reallocate their domestic resources more efficiently by providing security support. The improved efficiency of resource allocation has a positive effect on the economic growth of member states. In addition, alliance…
Capability revisited
The main questions explored here are whether alliances lead to conflict between member states and non-member states and whether the capability of allies is a source of this effect. Building on the opportunity framework, this study argues that, with more confidence in military success due to support from allies, challenger states are more likely to be emboldened and to initiate disputes. The empirical analyses show that the capability of allies ha…
An assessment of the validity of empirical measures of state satisfaction with the systemic status quo
There exists no consensus as to what indicates state satisfaction with the systemic status quo even though it has been a widely used concept in the empirical literature on conflict. This is surprising because satisfaction is not a new concept in International Relations and has been accorded a central role in many theories of war. In this article, we present a measure of satisfaction based on the cost of money for sovereign borrowers and compare t…
How and why the Cold War became a long peace
A data-based analysis of how and why the long peace of the Cold War occurred. The analysis tests a proposition originally suggested by Senese and Vasquez (2008) that alliance polarization played an important role in producing the long peace, because in the 1816–1945 and post-Cold War periods, both sides having outside alliances was positively associated with the escalation of a militarized interstate dispute (MID) to war and in the Cold War it wa…
How and why the Cold War became a long peace
A data-based analysis of how and why the long peace of the Cold War occurred. The analysis tests a proposition originally suggested by Senese and Vasquez (2008) that alliance polarization played an important role in producing the long peace, because in the 1816–1945 and post-Cold War periods, both sides having outside alliances was positively associated with the escalation of a militarized interstate dispute (MID) to war and in the Cold War it wa…
Capability revisited
The main questions explored here are whether alliances lead to conflict between member states and non-member states and whether the capability of allies is a source of this effect. Building on the opportunity framework, this study argues that, with more confidence in military success due to support from allies, challenger states are more likely to be emboldened and to initiate disputes. The empirical analyses show that the capability of allies ha…
An assessment of the validity of empirical measures of state satisfaction with the systemic status quo
There exists no consensus as to what indicates state satisfaction with the systemic status quo even though it has been a widely used concept in the empirical literature on conflict. This is surprising because satisfaction is not a new concept in International Relations and has been accorded a central role in many theories of war. In this article, we present a measure of satisfaction based on the cost of money for sovereign borrowers and compare t…
How and why the Cold War became a long peace
A data-based analysis of how and why the long peace of the Cold War occurred. The analysis tests a proposition originally suggested by Senese and Vasquez (2008) that alliance polarization played an important role in producing the long peace, because in the 1816–1945 and post-Cold War periods, both sides having outside alliances was positively associated with the escalation of a militarized interstate dispute (MID) to war and in the Cold War it wa…
An assessment of the validity of empirical measures of state satisfaction with the systemic status quo
There exists no consensus as to what indicates state satisfaction with the systemic status quo even though it has been a widely used concept in the empirical literature on conflict. This is surprising because satisfaction is not a new concept in International Relations and has been accorded a central role in many theories of war. In this article, we present a measure of satisfaction based on the cost of money for sovereign borrowers and compare t…
Capability revisited
The main questions explored here are whether alliances lead to conflict between member states and non-member states and whether the capability of allies is a source of this effect. Building on the opportunity framework, this study argues that, with more confidence in military success due to support from allies, challenger states are more likely to be emboldened and to initiate disputes. The empirical analyses show that the capability of allies ha…
Not Just Pooling, but Helping Generate Capabilities
This study explores sequential effects between alliances and member states’ capability growth. It argues that alliances have the effect of increasing member states’ economic and military capability growth. Alliances help member states reallocate their domestic resources more efficiently by providing security support. The improved efficiency of resource allocation has a positive effect on the economic growth of member states. In addition, alliance…
International Relations and Foreign Policy (3 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · International Development and Aid (2 works) · Member state (2 works) · Member states (2 works) · Politics (2 works)