Fordham, Benjamin O - In: Journal of Peace Research 47 (2010) 6, pp. 685-696
entanglement. This article presents evidence that international trade helps explain these alliances. States that have the power to … conflict. Alliances are one means of providing this protection. This argument differs from most other research on trade and … alliances, which reverses the causal arrow and suggests instead that alliances increase trade. Empirical analysis indicates that …