Alliances and Conflict, or Conflict and Alliances? Appraising the Causal Effect of Alliances on Conflict

• In Event: Forging Ties and Shaping Conflict Occurence

Brief Overview

When modeling the effect of alliances on conflict, scholars often neglect that alliances are endogenous to the conflicts they are formed to deter or provoke. When modeling this endogeneity explicitly, do alliances still deter aggression?

Author

• Benjamin Wesley Campbell, Ohio State University-Main Campus