The causes and consequences of joint military exercises
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation presents three papers on joint military exercises. The first paper, The Joint Military Exercise Data Set, situates joint military exercises in the growing literature on peacetime military cooperation and signaling mechanisms. It presents a new data set of over 5,000 joint military exercises and shows that the use of joint military exercises has been increasing since 1980. The second paper, Expanding Missions, Multilateralism, and Flexibility: Explaining the Increase in Joint Military Exercise Activity Since the End of the Cold War, explains the reasons for one of the most unusual aspects of the growth of joint military exercises, that of exercises between states that do not share a formal defense alliance. I argue that the increase in non-aligned states conducting exercises is due to a combination of reasons. The end of the Cold War led military and defense bureaucracies to advocate for new missions and purposes for which joint military exercises are particularly well suited. An increase in using the military for sub-conventional conflict, such as for peacekeeping or responding to natural disasters, led to a need to establish relationships with new partners. Many of these missions are conducted multilaterally and exercises help establish the personal relationships that underpin their success. Exercises are also a flexible tool that allow countries caught between major powers to maintain relationships with both sides of geopolitical blocs. The third paper, coauthored with Lauren Sukin and titled Joint Military Exercises and Crisis Dynamics on the Korean Peninsula, examines the consequences of joint military exercises on military threats and signals, using the case of North Korean responses to South Korean joint military exercises. Rather than deterring North Korea, exercises are associated with more provocative rhetoric and actions, demonstrating that North Korea views joint military exercises as a serious threat to its security. Moreover, the intensity of North Korea's responses to joint military exercises is driven by the severity of the threat particular exercises pose, indicating that North Korea responds to exercises as serious security threats.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Bernhardt, Jordan |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Schultz, Kenneth A |
| Thesis advisor | Schultz, Kenneth A |
| Thesis advisor | Krasner, Stephen D, 1942- |
| Thesis advisor | Sagan, Scott Douglas |
| Degree committee member | Krasner, Stephen D, 1942- |
| Degree committee member | Sagan, Scott Douglas |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jordan Bernhardt. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Jordan Bernhardt
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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