Friendly Fire: Strong Allies and the Use of Aggressive Negotiations

• In Event: Words, Signals, and Bargains

Brief Overview

While allies are thought to want to maximize cooperation, we argue that reluctance to end alliance relationships allows for more "bad behavior" between strong allies. We offer an analysis of temporal volatility between different alliance dyads.

Authors

• Julia Raven, University of California-Berkeley

• Lauren Barden-Hair, University of California-Berkeley