Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics

by Jeremy Pressman

Book Overview

Allied nations often stop each other from going to war. Some countries even form alliances with the specific intent of restraining another power and thereby preventing war. Furthermore, restraint often becomes an issue in existing alliances as one ally wants to start a war, launch a military intervention, or pursue some other risky military policy while the other ally balks. In Warring Friends, Jeremy Pressman draws on and critiques realist,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801474434
• ISBN13: 9780801474439
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher