Alliances, Then Democracy
An Examination of the Relationship between Regime Type and Alliance Formation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6284656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas M Gibler (0000-0002-2245-8915, University of Kentucky), Scott Wolford (0000-0002-5468-6699, Emory University) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 129-153 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002705281360 |
| OpenAlex | W2129639526 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 68 |
| References cited | 58 |
Previous studies have not established a consistent link between regime type and alliance formation, despite the relevance of the decision to ally in a number of arguments about regime type and alliance behavior. The inconsistency in these findings turns largely on choice of research design and variable definition; when the dependent variable is alliance formation, democratic dyads are unlikely to ally, but when the dependent variable is the presence of an alliance tie, democratic dyads are likely to be allied. Under a standard research design, the authors find both claims to be true and propose a test of an explanation for this tendency of autocratic states to democratize in alliances. They show that the presence of a defense pact with all neighboring states reduces the likelihood that a state will be targeted with a territorial militarized dispute, reduces the level of state militarization, and increases the likelihood of democratic transitions
Alliance · Autocracy · Democracy · Economics · Militarization · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Relevance (law · Variable (mathematics · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
Domestic Political Institutions and Alliance Politics
Why Do States Sign Alliances?
Why Allies Rebel
What kind of ‘world order’? An artificial neural networks approach to intensive data mining
Constructing International Security
Of Mountains, Rivers, and Oceans
Major powers’ management of complex peace relationships
Israel's Security and Its Arab Citizens
Vietnam in the democratization process
Who's afraid of China? Neo-conservative, realist and liberal-internationalist assessments of American power, the future of “the West” and the coming new world order
What Friends are Made of
Substate Organizations as Foreign Policy Agents
Why do states join US-led military coalitions
Switching sides
The Breakdown of International Negotiations
When are similar regimes more likely to form alliances? Institutions and ideologies in the post-communist world
Democracies, Territory, and Negotiated Compromises
Complex Dependencies in the Alliance Network
Alliance treaty obligations and war intervention
Issue linkage and international cooperation
Ethnic preferences, domestic audiences and military coalition formation
Toward a Network Theory of Alliance Formation
Sequencing the Steps to War
Negotiating Military Alliances
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and votes in favor of Russia in the UN General Assembly
Complementarity in alliances
Arms and Elections
Peaceful Neighborhoods and Democratic Differences
Power, Parity, and Place
Coercion and Restraint in the South China Sea
Assessing the Variation of Formal Military Alliances
Does Issue Linkage Work? Evidence from European Alliance Negotiations, 1860 to 1945
Territorial Peace and Democratic Clustering
Allying for Peace
Institutional Opposition, Regime Accountability, and International Conflict
Dyadic Clustering in International Relations
A Local Structure Graph Model
(Mis)Using Dyadic Data to Analyze Multilateral Events
Preventing Coups and Seeking Allies
Democracy, Institutionalization, and Corporate Alliances
Keeping Your Friends Close, but Acquaintances Closer
All Alliances Are Multilateral
The Costs of Reneging
Major Powers and Militarized Conflict
Dyads Are Dead, Long Live Dyads! The Limits of Dyadic Designs in International Relations Research
The Politics of Diplomacy
Reliability, Reputation, and Alliance Formation1
Rivalry and State Support of Non-State Armed Groups (NAGs), 1946-20011
External Threat and Alliance Formation
Permanent Friends? Dynamic Difference and the Democratic Peace
Cooperative and Antagonistic Networks
Civil Conflict and Agenda-Setting Speed in the United Nations Security Council
The Logic of “Offstage” Signaling
Quasi alliance explanation for the fluctuating ROK-Japan relationship
Settled Borders and Regime Type
Arms versus Democratic Allies
Bound to follow? The Anglosphere and US-led coalitions of the willing, 1950–2001
An assessment of the validity of empirical measures of state satisfaction with the systemic status quo
Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan
Team of former rivals
External Threat and Democracy
Identifying the level of major power support signaled for protégés
Modeling the coevolution of international and domestic institutions
The cost of security
Trade and asymmetric alliances
The geometry of security
Negotiations in the Shadow of Outside Alternatives
Steps-to-War Theory and Interstate Wars in the Middle East
The War Puzzle
After Victory
Democracy as a contingent outcome of conflicts
Burden Sharing, Strategy, and the Design of Nato
Crucible of Beliefs
Essays on the Welfare State
Standing Your Ground
Constitutionalism and Democracy
All International Politics Is Local
The Democratic Peace and Territorial Conflict in the Twentieth Century
The Logic of Political Survival
Peace and War
The War Ledger
Democracy and Redistribution
An Economic Theory of Alliances
Explaining Interstate Conflict and War
Alliances That Never Balance
Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions, 1815-1944
Control the issues, control the conflict
Nato and Democracy
Democratization and the Danger of War
Democratization and the Danger of War
War and state making
Uncovering the Dangerous Alliances, 1495-1980
After victory
The Steps to War
The Theory of Collective Action and Nato Defense Burdens
Dangerous Dyads
Birds of a Feather
Democracy, Political Similarity, and International Alliances, 1816-1992
Political System Similarity And The Choice of Allies
Joining the Club of Nations
The Classical Liberals Were Right
Beyond Territorial Contiguity
Contentious Issues and World Politics
Democracy and peace
Alliance Reliability in Times of War
The theory of collective action and burden sharing in Nato
Democratic states and commitment in international relations
War and strong states, peace and weak states
Democracy from the Outside-In? International Organizations and Democratization
Democratic Transitions, Institutional Strength, and War
Testing Alternative Models of Alliance Duration, 1816-1984
Why Democracies May Actually Be Less Reliable Allies
Alliances and Asymmetry
A Unified Statistical Model of Conflict Onset and Escalation
Democratic Survival, Peace, and War in the International System
Domestic Political Institutions, Credible Commitments, and International Cooperation
Alliance Duration and Democracy
Modernization
Does Oil Hinder Democracy
Measuring Alliances
Defense Pacts and International Trade
Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
International Law and State Behavior
Warfare, Military Organization, and the Evolution of Society
| Unique citing works | 68 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,4 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 68 |