How Independent are Foreign Policy Choices? A Case Study on Voting Clusters at the United Nations

• In Event: Russia, China, and Great-Power Politics

Brief Overview

The paper empirically analyzes all available UN voting results between 1946-2024; shows states’ voting alignments and decrease in autonomous foreign policy correlating with treaties and trade; and introduces the notion of “Creeping alliances”.

Author

• Kerem Gulay, Koc University