Security Challenges
Volume 13, No.2 (2017)

Global Allies - Comparing US Alliances in the 21st Century

Iain Henry
November 2017

Comparative analyses of the world’s two alliance ‘systems’—the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the ‘hub and spoke’ model of Asian alliances—quickly highlight the obvious differences between them, and usually offer arguments as to why these discrepancies exist. Global Allies, a recent volume edited by Michael Wesley, shines light on two similarities often overlooked in the post-Cold War period.

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