Balancing Power without Weapons
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Balancing Power without Weapons

State Intervention into Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions

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Balancing Power without Weapons

State Intervention into Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. List of Abbreviations
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 A Theory of Non-Military Internal Balancing
  13. 2 The Numbers: Assessing the Motivations Behind State Intervention into Foreign Takeovers
  14. 3 Unbounded Intervention: The State and the Blocked Deal
  15. 4 Unbounded or Overbalancing? An Outlier Case
  16. 5 Bounded Intervention: Mitigating Threats to National Security
  17. 6 Non-Intervention and the “Internal” Intervention Alternative
  18. Conclusion
  19. Appendix A Alternative Independent Variables Considered
  20. Appendix B Descriptive Statistics of Variables in MNLMs I-IV
  21. Appendix C MNLM III and Resource Dependency
  22. Appendix D Descriptive Statistics of Dataset Variables: Frequencies
  23. Appendix E Bivariate Correlations of Dataset Variables
  24. Appendix F Negative Case Selection
  25. References
  26. Index