Power to Divide - Wedge Strategies in Great Power Competition

Informationen zum Autor Timothy W. Crawford Klappentext "[This book] explains how states use 'wedge strategies' to divide adversaries. It examines history of great power alliance politics around World Wars I and II and, in present context of great power competition, considers a Chinese strategy to divide U.S. and India and a U.S. strategy to divide China and Russia"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Power to Divide in Alliance Politics 1. The Theory of Selective Accommodation 2. Germany Fails to Detach Japan, 1915-16 3. Germany Keeps the United States Neutral, 1914-16 4. The Entente Fails to Keep Turkey Neutral, 1914 5. The Entente Realigns Italy, 1915 6. Britain and France Fail to Neutralize Italy, 1936-40 7. Germany Divides the USSR from Britain and France, 1939 8. Britain and the United States Neutralize Spain, 1940-41 9. Germany Fails to Realign Turkey, 1941 10. When Does Selective Accommodation Work? Claims and Case Comparisons 11. Selective Accommodation in Great Power Competition and U.S. Grand Strategy

Product details

• Authors: Timothy W. Crawford
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781501754715
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-5471-5
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs; Cornell Studies in Security Af
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration