Bandwagoning
In the realistic Theory S of the international relations, the concept of bandwagoning (that one could translate into French by “tagging along”) refers to the fact for weak State S of joining a stronger State or a coalition. This concept is the opposite of the Balancing .
The term bandwagoning was forced by Quincy Wright in has off study War (1942) and popularized by Kenneth Waltz in Theory off International Politics (1979).
The phenomenon of bandwagoning occurs when weak States estimate that the cost of the opposition in a stronger State is more important than the benefit than this opposition would allow. The strong States can also incite weakest to join them by various means: promise of transfer of territory, trade agreements preferential.
See too
- Balance of the powers
- Balance of the threat
- Balancing
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