Arguing about Alliances. The Art of Agreement in Military-Pact Negotiations, Hardback/Paul Poast

Why do some attempts to conclude alliance treaties end in failure? From the inability of European powers to form an alliance that would stop Hitler in the 1930s, to the present inability of Ukraine to join NATO, states frequently attempt but fail to form alliance treaties. In Arguing about Alliances , Paul Poast sheds new light on the purpose of...