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Article: Dangerous Alliances: Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- December 1, 2005
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Dangerous Alliances: Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War, by Patricia A. Weitsman. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. x, 244 pp. $49.50 US (cloth).
Why do states ally? Patricia A. Weitsman is not the first scholar to address this important question. An entire chapter of political science theory revolves around this issue, whereas many historians have examined how military alliances have shaped history in times of war and in times of peace. On that matter, numerous studies have focused on the role of the two great opposing blocs in the outbreak of the First World War.
In this ambitious book, Weitsman, using as case studies European alliances ...