Why do states join wartime coalitions despite the absence of a salient threat or strong ties to
the coalition leader? We argue states make unexpectedly high contributions to coalition …

Today, few countries fight alone; most fight as allies or partners in multilateral campaigns.
The end of the Cold War opened a window of opportunity for multinational military …

There is a growing consensus that multinational military operations are often less effective
than the theoretical sum of their constitutive parts. Multiple chains of command, restriction on …

Using the concept of strategic culture, we consider the history of Canadian defence policy.
Our argument is that the interplay of imperialism, continentalism and Atlanticism, as …

As an adjusted Westminster-style system with large executive room for maneuver in matters
of foreign, security, and defense policies, Australia's parliament does not have a formal say …

Canada has taken part in six wars since 1945, all of which have been conducted under US
leadership. Despite such military interventionism, there have been no systematic …

In 2014, the USA initiated the formation of a multilateral military operation against Daesh in
Syria and Iraq. Eventually, more than 70 states joined the anti-Daesh coalition. However …

ABSTRACT The election of Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential elections suggests a return to
“normal” foreign relations after the dramatic four years of Donald Trump's presidency. This …

How states join coalitions affects the extent to which they are perceived as blameworthy–or
praiseworthy–for the outcome of that coalition. By extension, states' moral reputations can be …

War by committee has become the dominant form of warfare since the 1990s. As noted in
the introduction to this volume, the majority of major battles fought since the end of the Cold …