Frenemies – When Ideological Enemies Ally Haas Hardback John Wiley & Sons

FrenemiesWhen Ideological Enemies Ally\nAuthor(s): Mark L. Haas\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501761232, 978-1501761232\nSynopsis\nIn Frenemies Mark L. Haas addresses policy-guiding puzzles such as: Why do international ideological enemies sometimes overcome their differences and ally against shared threats? Why, just as often, do such alliances fail? \n\n Alliances among ideological enemies confronting a common foe, or \""frenemy\"" alliances, are unlike coalitions among ideologically-similar states facing comparable threats. Members of frenemy alliances are perpetually torn by two powerful opposing forces. Haas shows that shared material threats push these states together while ideological differences pull them apart. Each of these competing forces has dominated the other at critical times. This difference has resulted in stable alliances among ideological enemies in some cases but the delay, dis.