Balancing Power without Weapons
State Intervention into Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Published on 28. March 2018
978-1-316-85956-8 (ISBN)
Description
Why do states block some foreign direct investment on national security grounds even when it originates from within their own security community? Government intervention into foreign takeovers of domestic companies is on the rise, and many observers find it surprising that states engage in such behaviour not only against their strategic and military competitors, but also against their closest allies. Ashley Lenihan argues that such puzzling behaviour can be explained by recognizing that states use intervention into cross-border mergers and acquisitions as a tool of statecraft to internally balance the economic and military power of other states through non-military means. This book tests this theory using quantitative and qualitative analysis of transactions in the United States, Russia, China, and fifteen European Union states. It deepens our understanding of why states intervene in foreign takeovers, the relationship between interdependence and conflict, the limits of globalization, and how states are balancing power in new ways. This title is also available as Open Access.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 36 Halftones, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white
File size
13,38 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-316-85956-8 (9781316859568)
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Ashley Thomas Lenihan
Balancing Power without Weapons
State Intervention into Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Book
03/2018
Cambridge University Press
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Person
Ashley Thomas Lenihan is a Fellow at the Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Law, Science, and Global Security at Georgetown University, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her research focuses on the relationship between state power and foreign direct investment from an international relations perspective.
Content
Introduction; 1. A theory of non-military internal balancing; 2. The numbers: a comprehensive look at the motivations behind; 3. Unbounded intervention: the state and the blocked deal; 4. Unbounded or overbalancing? An outlier case; 5. Bounded intervention: mitigating threats to national security; 6. Non-intervention and the 'internal' intervention alternative; Conclusion.
