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In The Shadow of the Past, Gregory D. Miller examines the role that reputation plays in international politics, emphasizing the importance of reliability-confidence that, based on past political actions, a country will make good on its promises-in the formation of military alliances. Challenging recent scholarship that focuses on the importance of credibility-a state's reputation for following through on its threats-Miller finds that reliable states have much greater freedom in forming alliances than those that invest resources in building military force but then use it inconsistently. To explore the formation and maintenance of alliances based on reputation, Miller draws on insights from both political science and business theory to track the evolution of great power relations before the First World War. He starts with the British decision to abandon "splendid isolation" in 1900 and examines three crises-the First Moroccan Crisis (1905-6), the Bosnia-Herzegovina Crisis (1908-9), and the Agadir Crisis (1911)-leading up to the war. He determines that states with a reputation for being a reliable ally have an easier time finding other reliable allies, and have greater autonomy within their alliances, than do states with a reputation for unreliability. Further, a history of reliability carries long-term benefits, as states tend not to lose allies even when their reputation declines.

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World War I

International relations

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	09 décembre 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780801464133
Langue	English

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TheShadowofthePast

Avolumeintheseries

Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

editedbyRobertJ.Art,RobertJervis,andStephenM.Walt

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TheShadowofthePast

ReputationandMilitaryAlliancesbefore the First World War

GregoryD.Miller

CornellUniversityPressIthaca and London

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First published 2012 by Cornell University Press Printed in the United States of America

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Miller, Gregory D., 1973– The shadow of the past : reputation and military alliances before the First World War / Gregory D. Miller p. cm. — (Cornell studies in security affairs) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780801450310 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Europe—Foreign relations—1871–1918. 2. Reputation (Law) 3. Alliances. I. Title. II. Series: Cornell studies in security affairs. D453.M55 2012 940.3'112—dc23 2011027256

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Acknowledgments

1. Alliances and Reputation in International Relations 2. Reliability and Alliance Behavior3. The End of Splendid Isolation: British Pursuit of an Ally, 1901–19054. The First Moroccan Crisis: Testing the AngloFrench Entente, 1904–19075. The BosniaHerzegovina Crisis: Expanding the Entente, 1907–19116. The Agadir Crisis: Rolling toward War, 1910–19147. Summary and Expansion of Findings

AppendixesA. First Treaty of Alliance between AustriaHungary, Germany, and Italy, 20 May 1882

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B. The AngloJapanese Alliance, 30 January 1902C. Declaration between the United Kingdom and France Respecting Egypt and Morocco, 8 April 1904D. The Second AngloJapanese Agreement, 12 August 1905E. Conventions between Russia and the United Kingdom Relating to Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet, 31 August 1907

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FiguresandTables

Figure 1.1 The prisoner’s dilemmaFigure 1.2 The chain store paradox

Table 3.1 The great powers in 1901Table 3.2 Review of chapter ﬁndingsTable 4.1 The great powers during the First Moroccan Crisis (1905)Table 4.2 Review of chapter ﬁndingsTable 5.1 The great powers during the BosniaHerzegovina Crisis (1908)Table 5.2 Review of chapter ﬁndingsTable 6.1 The great powers during the Agadir Crisis (1911)Table 6.2 Review of chapter ﬁndingsTable 7.1 Summary of resultsTable 7.2 A reputation theory of conﬂict initiation(where states A and B are allies and states A and C are adversaries)

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