alliances to balance power, and/or to gain influence over other states Conventional wisdom #2: The alliance dilemma is a fundamental problem shared by all military alliances Conventional wisdom #3: Members of US alliances must do more to bear their fair share of the common defense burden Conventional wisdom #4: Military alliances aggregate capabilities and thus allow their members to confront security challenges more effectively Conventional wisdom #5: Military alliances are only useful for as long as the strategic circumstances that led to their emergence hold Military Alliances and World Order in the Twenty-First Century
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List of Tables
1 IntroductionTable 0.1: Military alliances that are active as of 2021
2 Chapter 4Table 4.1: NATO military spending as percentage of GDP in 2019
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1 Chapter 4Figure 4.1: Defense spending of select European NATO countries and the United States as a pe...
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