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The Adversary's Veto: Rival Powers, Alliance Politics, and the Limits of Grand Strategy

The Adversary's Veto: Rival Powers, Alliance Politics, and the Limits of Grand Strategy

Byun, Joshua

Hardcover

Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

General Political ScienceInternational RelationsMilitary Strategy

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 15, 2027

ISBN10: 1501791184
ISBN13: 9781501791185
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Jan 15 2027
Pages: 264
Language: English

In The Adversary's Veto, Joshua Byun investigates why great powers so often struggle to shape how their smaller allies prepare for war.

When a great power seeks to enlist its allies in checking a formidable adversary, some allies readily adapt their military capabilities to the great power's grand strategy while others do not. Conventional wisdom holds that this pattern stems from the great power's excessive generosity. Byun argues otherwise. Distinguishing between outsourcing grand strategies--which devolve military assets and responsibilities to smaller allies--and insourcing strategies--which centralize discretion over military decisions in the hands of the great power--he shows that allies' responses to either strategy are shaped less by what the great power offers or withholds than by the risks that allies perceive from a hostile great power outside the alliance.

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