Alliances and War: Cooperation, Complication, and Conflict Among Allies

Session Submission Type: Virtual Full Paper Panel

Session Description

"Alliances and War" sheds light on understudied elements of the intersection between two major tenants of international relations: alliance politics and the development of the means and methods of warfare. Employing a a variety of methods and examining different historical periods, this panel investigates the role of "trip-wire" forces in establishing alliance credibility, the choices of great powers to share technology, the organizational pathologies stymying U.S. efforts to build stronger militaries in partner states, and the tendency among allies with shared threats to operationalize defense in different ways.

Sub Unit

• Division 19: International Security 

Individual Presentations

• Testing the Trip Wire - Joshua Alley, University of Virginia; Todd S. Sechser, University of Virginia

• Sharing with Frenemies: Technology Sharing with Geopolitical Rival - Erik Sand, Naval War College

• NATO and the Missile Defense Challenge - Sanne Verschuren, Brown University

Chair

• Dan Reiter Emory University

Discussants

• Paul Poast University of Chicago

• Joshua Itzkowitz Shifrinson Boston University