The Burden-Sharing Dilemma by Brian D. Blankenship

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/224414 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Burden-Sharing Dilemma Author: Brian D. Blankenship Narrator: Ray Montecalvo Format: mp3 Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins Release date: 12-21-23 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Arms Control Publisher's Summary: Blankenship identifies three factors that determine the severity of this burden-sharing dilemma and how it is managed: the latent military power of allies, the shared external threat environment, and the level of a patron's resource constraints. Through case studies of US alliances formed during the Cold War, he shows that a patron can mitigate the dilemma by combining assurances of protection with threats of abandonment and by exercising discretion in its burden-sharing pressure.