Randomness, contagion and heterogeneity in the formation of interstate alliances— a reconsideration
| العنوان: | Randomness, contagion and heterogeneity in the formation of interstate alliances— a reconsideration |
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| المؤلفون: | Wallace J. Thies |
| المصدر: | International Interactions. 16:335-354 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 1991. |
| سنة النشر: | 1991 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Politics, Coping (psychology), Deductive reasoning, Alliance, Management science, Political Science and International Relations, Economics, Randomness, Subject matter |
| الوصف: | The diversity in form and purpose exhibited by interstate alliances and the difficulty of developing generalizations about them have led political scientists interested in alliances to investigate new research techniques to help them in coping with the intractability of their subject matter. Prominent in this regard have been efforts to use stochastic process models to search for regularities in the process by which alliances have formed and re‐formed. Such an approach, however, has not as yet proven conducive to the development of a theory of alliance behavior, in large part because of inconsistencies in the empirical findings and in part because of the difficulty of bridging the gap between describing a set of outcomes and elucidating the processes that produced them. The purpose of this paper is twofold: to make the case that progress toward a theory of alliance formation is possible, and to suggest that the most appropriate way to pursue that goal is through a combination of deductive reasoning and de... |
| تدمد: | 1547-7444 0305-0629 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::59f8501f3f32a1639031ed1e9796153e https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629108434765 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........59f8501f3f32a1639031ed1e9796153e |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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