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Washington and Bonn: dimensions of change in bilateral relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Paul M. Johnson
Paul M. Johnson
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Assistant Professor of Political Science at Union College, Schenectady.
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Abstract

In recent years efforts to account for changing patterns of alliance relationships have incorporated a growing number of insights and propositions derived from the analysis of “global interdependence.” These efforts have been complicated, on the one hand, by a lack of precision in providing operational definitions of the independent variables and, at a more fundamental level, by considerable ambiguity with respect to those types of changes which may be best explained in terms of these variables.

An analysis of Washington-Bonn relations reveals a reasonably coherent pattern of changes with regard to four specific aspects of the relationship: 1) the nature of the alliance agenda; 2) the structure of the relationship (i.e. the characteristic distribution of influence between alliance partners); 3) the operative procedural norms which regulate bilateral bargaining and negotiation; and 4) the institutional arrangements which have evolved for the coordination of alliance policy.

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International Organization , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , Autumn 1979 , pp. 451 - 480
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1979

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