Alliance scholarship has neglected how alliances adapt to shifting strategic conditions.

Evidence

Alliance literature traditionally has focused on two key questions: Why do alliances form? and What keeps alliances together? A broader question, related to the second, is inadequately addressed: How do alliances respond to changing strategic circumstances? — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 7

Categorization

• SEED: Frames a literature-review essay angle: the formation-vs-persistence binary misses the real question of institutional adaptation to environmental change.
• XREF: connects to: Alliance theory has neglected why alliances persist and what happens when they become obsolete — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 31

Broader Connections

• Alliance theory has neglected why alliances persist and what happens when they become obsolete #corroborates (0.90) — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 31