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Wedge Strategies in Balance of Power Politics: Concepts, Controversies, and the Curious Case of Spain, 1940-41
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EDGE
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TRATEGIES IN
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ALANCE OF
P
OWER
P
OLITICS
Concepts, Controversies, and the Curious Case of Spain, 1940-1941
Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
August 31-September 3, 2006.
Timothy W. Crawford
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Boston College
timothy.## email not listed ##
Abstract: This paper argues for the importance of wedge strategy as a form of external
balancing in international politics. Since wedge strategies tend to be ignored in theoretical work on balancing, it first explains why wedge strategies get short-shrift in security studies.
Second, it outlines the forms wedge strategies may take, and the policy approaches used to further them. Third, it discusses how wedge strategies help to explain important “alignment
anomalies” in international politics. Fourth, it examines a case in which a wedge strategy produced just such an alignment anomaly, with great consequences for the conduct and
outcome of World War II, and thus, our world today. It concludes with the implications of wedge strategies for theoretical work on balancing theory and security policy debates.
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1
W
EDGE
S
TRATEGIES IN
B
ALANCE OF
P
OWER
P
OLITICS
Concepts, Controversies, and the Curious Case of Spain, 1940-1941
Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
August 31-September 3, 2006.
Timothy W. Crawford
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Boston College
timothy.## email not listed ##
Abstract: This paper argues for the importance of wedge strategy as a form of external
balancing in international politics. Since wedge strategies tend to be ignored in theoretical
work on balancing, it first explains why wedge strategies get short-shrift in security studies.
Second, it outlines the forms wedge strategies may take, and the policy approaches used to
further them. Third, it discusses how wedge strategies help to explain important “alignment
anomalies” in international politics. Fourth, it examines a case in which a wedge strategy
produced just such an alignment anomaly, with great consequences for the conduct and
outcome of World War II, and thus, our world today. It concludes with the implications of
wedge strategies for theoretical work on balancing theory and security policy debates.
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