LEADER 04938nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910828773403321 005 20240416114006.0 010 $a0-8014-6712-8 010 $a0-8014-7443-4 010 $a0-8014-6494-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801464942 035 $a(CKB)2550000000073152 035 $a(EBL)3138278 035 $a(OCoLC)769190458 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000552257 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11360339 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000552257 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10539306 035 $a(PQKB)11349854 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28900 035 $a(DE-B1597)478521 035 $a(OCoLC)979904740 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801464942 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138278 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10516002 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681689 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138278 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000073152 100 $a20071126d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWarring friends $ealliance restraint in international politics /$fJeremy Pressman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (190 p.) 225 1 $aCornell studies in security affairs 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-50407-5 311 $a0-8014-4671-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [137]-171) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1 Alliance Restraint --$t2 Allying to Restrain --$t3 Anglo-American Relations and Alliance Restraint --$t4 American-Israeli Relations and Alliance Restraint --$t5 Expanding the Restraint Story --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aAllied nations often stop each other from going to war. Some countries even form alliances with the specific intent of restraining another power and thereby preventing war. Furthermore, restraint often becomes an issue in existing alliances as one ally wants to start a war, launch a military intervention, or pursue some other risky military policy while the other ally balks. In Warring Friends, Jeremy Pressman draws on and critiques realist, normative, and institutionalist understandings of how alliance decisions are made.Alliance restraint often has a role to play both in the genesis of alliances and in their continuation. As this book demonstrates, an external power can apply the brakes to an incipient conflict, and even unheeded advice can aid in clarifying national goals. The power differentials between allies in these partnerships are influenced by leadership unity, deception, policy substitutes, and national security priorities. Recent controversy over the complicated relationship between the U.S. and Israeli governments-especially in regard to military and security concerns-is a reminder that the alliance has never been easy or straightforward.Pressman highlights multiple episodes during which the United States attempted to restrain Israel's military policies: Israeli nuclear proliferation during the Kennedy Administration; the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; preventing an Israeli preemptive attack in 1973; a small Israeli operation in Lebanon in 1977; the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982; and Israeli action during the Gulf War of 1991. As Pressman shows, U.S. initiatives were successful only in 1973, 1977, and 1991, and tensions have flared up again recently as a result of Israeli arms sales to China.Pressman also illuminates aspects of the Anglo-American special relationship as revealed in several cases: British nonintervention in Iran in 1951; U.S. nonintervention in Indochina in 1954; U.S. commitments to Taiwan that Britain opposed, 1954-1955; and British intervention and then withdrawal during the Suez War of 1956. These historical examples go far to explain the context within which the Blair administration failed to prevent the U.S. government from pursuing war in Iraq at a time of unprecedented American power. 410 0$aCornell studies in security affairs. 606 $aAlliances 606 $aDeterrence (Strategy) 606 $aConflict management$xInternational cooperation 606 $aWar$xPrevention$xInternational cooperation 606 $aInternational relations 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y20th century$vCase studies 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y2001-2009$vCase studies 615 0$aAlliances. 615 0$aDeterrence (Strategy) 615 0$aConflict management$xInternational cooperation. 615 0$aWar$xPrevention$xInternational cooperation. 615 0$aInternational relations. 676 $a327.1/16 700 $aPressman$b Jeremy$f1969-$01692514 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828773403321 996 $aWarring friends$94069654 997 $aUNINA