A Comparative Study of US Alliance Relations: Threat Perception, Reassurance, and Burden Sharing
About this project
- Japan Grant Number
- JP18H00823
- Funding Program
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
- Funding organization
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Project/Area Number
- 18H00823
- Research Category
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
- Allocation Type
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- Single-year Grants
- Review Section / Research Field
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- Basic Section 06020:International relations-related
- Research Institution
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- Hitotsubashi University
- Project Period (FY)
- 2018-04-01 〜 2022-03-31
- Project Status
- Completed
- Budget Amount*help
- 13,130,000 Yen (Direct Cost: 10,100,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 3,030,000 Yen)
Research Abstract
This study examined the role played by U.S. alliances in shaping the regional and international order through a comparative analysis of the relationship between the United States and its allies during the Cold War in the three regions: Western Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Through this work, the project team clarified the dissimilarities and commonalities in the factors that defined the relationship between the U.S. and its allies in each region, and the fact that there were events that developed in a manner cutting across the two or three regions under analysis. It also clarified the political dynamics that lay behind such events. As it found it necessary to analyze alliance politics after the Cold War within the same framework, the project teach decided to put forward a co-authored book project that provides a comprehensive historical account from the early Cold War period to around 2020.