1. What Allies Want: Reconsidering Loyalty, Reliability, and Alliance Interdependence
- Author:
- Ian D. Henry
- Publication Date:
- 04-2020
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- International Security
- Institution:
- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
- Abstract:
- Leaders often believe that states that demonstrate disloyalty toward an ally will acquire a reputation for disloyalty, and thus damage other alliances. But in some circumstances, excessive loyalty to one ally can damage—perhaps even destroy—other alliances. The First Taiwan Strait Crisis (1954–55) shows that alliance interdependence is governed not by a reputation for loyalty, but by assessments of allied reliability.
- Topic:
- Security, History, Partnerships, Alliance, and State
- Political Geography:
- Taiwan, Asia, North America, and United States of America