Power, Interest, and Identity in Military Alliances

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 9
List of Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 15
1 Power, Interest, and Identity in International Politics: The Military Alliance between the United States and Republic of Korea......Page 18
Three Ways of Looking at Alliances......Page 21
Institutional Persistence......Page 25
Power, Interest, and Identity in Alliance Politics......Page 29
Asset Specificity......Page 30
Social Identity......Page 33
Institutionalization......Page 38
Conclusion......Page 40
2 Power and Alliance: Assessing Military Balance in Korea......Page 46
Conventional Force Balance in Korea......Page 47
Force-to-Force Ratios in the Theater......Page 49
Force-to-Force Ratios by Sectors......Page 54
Blitzkrieg? Dynamic Analysis......Page 58
Movement of a Battle Front......Page 59
Battles between Tanks......Page 61
Airpower and C[sup3]I......Page 62
Special Forces and Countermeasures......Page 66
Is the Alliance Maintenance a Puzzle?......Page 71
Power and Alliance......Page 79
3 Interests and Alliance Persistence......Page 80
Equipment and Alliance......Page 81
Trend in Weapons Transfer......Page 84
Korea’s Weapons Production......Page 89
Development of Institutional Integration......Page 103
Homogeneity in Military Doctrine......Page 108
Team Specificity......Page 112
Communication Specificity......Page 115
Locations and Alliance......Page 118
Assets Specific to Alliance......Page 121
4 Alliance and Identity......Page 126
“Americans’R Us”......Page 128
North Korea as the Other......Page 134
Institutional Framework of Identity Preservation......Page 139
North Korea as the Other......Page 142
Institutional Framework of Identity Preservation......Page 147
Alliance and Identity......Page 151
5 End of the Cold War, Beginning of Alliance Persistence......Page 154
Asset Specificities and Alliance Constituency......Page 155
Alliance Constituency, Security Costs, and Alliance Persistence......Page 161
Silent Consensus......Page 166
North Korea as a “Missile Threat”......Page 170
North Korea as a “Nuclear Threat”......Page 175
North Korea as a “Time Bomb”......Page 178
North Korea as the “Other”......Page 181
Alliance as Usual......Page 182
Interest, Identity, and Alliance Persistence......Page 188
6 The Past and Future of Alliances: Institutionalization in World Politics......Page 192
Power, Interest, Identity, and Alliance Persistence......Page 194
Relationships between Institutional and Identity Frameworks......Page 195
Dialogue between Rationalist and Reflexivist Approaches to IR......Page 200
Cold War Alliances and Asset Specificity......Page 204
Social Identity and Homogenization......Page 207
Domestic Politics, Transnational Coalitions, and International Institutions......Page 210
The U.S.-Korea Alliance Crisis at the Turn of the Century?......Page 213
The Future of the U.S.-Korea Alliance......Page 215
Appendix A. Adaptive Dynamic Model Simulations......Page 224
Appendix B. Hypothetical Armored Battle in a Breakthrough Sector......Page 228
Appendix C. Airpower’s Contribution to Ground War......Page 238
Appendix D. Military Effectiveness of North Korea’s Missiles......Page 242
Notes......Page 248
B......Page 296
D......Page 297
J......Page 298
M......Page 299
N......Page 300
S......Page 301
U......Page 302
Y......Page 303