As the last remaining superpower after the end of the Cold War, the USA is considered the constructor of the world order. Therefore its alliance policy is a matter of peculiar interest. While research has focused on confederacies between democracies or on the relations of democracies and their adversaries, the relations of the democratic hegemon and its autocratic allies so far present a research gap. In the PRIF study Die Kooperation des Hegemons USA mit Saudi-Arabien und Pakistan: Fremde oder Freunde? Iris Wurm now makes a contribution to this previously uninvestigated subject matter.
The book addresses the cooperation of the USA and the autocratic states Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in terms of security policy and economy. The study links ideal types constructed on the basis of existing theoretical concepts to a "grounded theory" derived from empirical insights into these two cases and combines them to a theory of cooperation of the hegemon and autocratic partners.
This PRIF study is available at Nomos publishing house.