After the Threat: How Alliance Age Impacts Alliance Behavior

• In Event: JSS 14
  In JSS Session: Security Cooperation and IOs as Constraints on Conflict

Brief Overview

How does alliance age impact interoperability, alliance cohesion, and shared visions of purposes? This paper argues that age impacts inter-alliance behavior becomes habitual and consequently becomes institutionalized in the alliance agreements.

Author

• Jordan Cohen, George Mason University