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Wedge Strategies in Balance of Power Politics: Concepts, Controversies, and the Curious Case of Spain, 1940-41 |
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This paper argues for the importance of wedge strategy as a form of external balancing in international politics. Since wedge strategies tend to be ignored in theoretical work on balancing, it first explains why wedge strategies get short-shrift in security studies. Second, it outlines the forms wedge strategies may take, and the policy approaches used to further them. Third, it discusses how wedge strategies help to explain important “alignment anomalies” in international politics. Fourth, it examines a case in which a wedge strategy produced just such an alignment anomaly, with great consequences for the conduct and outcome of World War II, and thus, our world today. It concludes with the implications of wedge strategies for theoretical work on balancing theory and security policy debates. |
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| Crawford, Timothy. "Wedge Strategies in Balance of Power Politics: Concepts, Controversies, and the Curious Case of Spain, 1940-41" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 31, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p151546_index.html> |
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| Crawford, T. W. , 2006-08-31 "Wedge Strategies in Balance of Power Politics: Concepts, Controversies, and the Curious Case of Spain, 1940-41" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p151546_index.html |
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Abstract: This paper argues for the importance of wedge strategy as a form of external balancing in international politics. Since wedge strategies tend to be ignored in theoretical work on balancing, it first explains why wedge strategies get short-shrift in security studies. Second, it outlines the forms wedge strategies may take, and the policy approaches used to further them. Third, it discusses how wedge strategies help to explain important “alignment anomalies” in international politics. Fourth, it examines a case in which a wedge strategy produced just such an alignment anomaly, with great consequences for the conduct and outcome of World War II, and thus, our world today. It concludes with the implications of wedge strategies for theoretical work on balancing theory and security policy debates. |
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| 1 WEDGE STRATEGIES IN BALANCE OF POWER POLITICS Concepts Controversies and the Curious Case of Spain 1940-1941 Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association August 31-September 3 2006. Timothy W. Crawford Assistant Professor of Political Science Boston College timothy.crawford@bc.edu Abstract: This paper argues for the importance of wedge strategy as a form of external balancing in international politics. Since wedge strategies tend to be ignored in theoretical work on balancing it first |
| dictator—and use such tainted relationships to accomplish a realistic but supremely important political goal like Spain’s non-belligerency. If Churchill seems “like a Texan” to some it is worth remembering that in this case he did not call a spade a spade and he did not insist that Franco choose to be either a friend or foe because the “friend” option was not politically possible or even desirable. Somewhere in the middle—morally and strategically ambiguous—was actually just right. And Churchill |
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