Henry, IainHenry, I2023-10-302023-10-309781501763045http://hdl.handle.net/1885/303903In this chapter I review alliance and deterrence theories, and critique their expectations of interdependence. I consider more recent scholarship— the “reputation skeptic” literature which has argued that commitments are not interdependent, or at least not in the way expected by deterrence theorists.242application/pdfen-AU© 2022 The authorshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-nd/4.0/20222022-08-14Creative Commons Attribution licence