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  title info:
    title: Secret alliances
    sub title: why states make, keep, and end them
  name:
    name part: Millard, Matthew
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Edward Elgar Publishing
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (298 pages)
  abstract: "This topical book explores key motivating factors in the formation and dissolution of secret alliances between states. Matthew Millard examines the role of a variety of different factors in the formation, endurance, and termination of secret alliances, analyzing key case studies across Africa, Asia, and Europe that showcase the consequences of broken secret alliances. Using historical examples and quantitative data, Millard discusses why states refrain from institutionalizing their covert alliances, evaluating whether these are more or less enduring than public ones. He suggests that secret alliances form between two states when there is a breakdown in bargaining with a third target state, resulting in alliances that do not provide public signals of cooperation. Furthermore, the stakes over what is being divided up are more likely to result in war than in public alliances. Chapters debate the advantages and disadvantages of forming secret alliances and identify reasons that countries might renege on their obligations, including changes in leadership, the security environment, and conflicting military commitments. Secret Alliances is a vital read for students and scholars in political science and public policy, international relations, and security studies. Its novel insights make this book an essential reference tool for practitioners and policymakers in politics and foreign policy"--
  table of contents: 1. Introducing secret alliances: An under-studied aspect of conflict -- 2. Nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors: Targeting, division of goods, and secret alliances -- 3. Never meant to last: Violations and why secret alliances are not institutionalized -- 4. Let's just be friends: Secret alliances and political similarity -- 5. However it ends, it ends: Reputation, norms, the long shadow of the future, and secret alliances -- 6. The best friends are enemies: The molotov-ribbentrop pact -- 7. Trouble in the suez: The British-french-israeli plan for war -- 8. Big state, little state: Apartheid, domestic opinion, and the South Africa-swaziland agreement -- 9. Conclusion and the future of secret alliances -- Appendices -- References.
  note: Matthew Millard.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Policy sciences
  subject:
    topic: Alliances
  subject:
    topic: Sciences de la politique
  subject:
    topic: Alliances
    genre: Législation
  classification: H97 .M55 2025
  classification: 320.6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Secret Alliances
    name:
      name part: Millard, Matthew
    origin info:
      publisher: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited,c2025
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1499229661
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    title info:
      title: New Horizons in International Relations Series
  identifier: 9781035326884 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1035326884
  identifier: 1035326876
  identifier: 9781035326877
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: ELGAR
    record creation date: 250428
    record change date: 20250927173609.9
    record identifier: in00005664295
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng