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How do states dissuade adversaries from organizing against them? When do they succeed in splitting opponents that have formed or are likely to form an alliance? How do such "wedge strategies" inºuence larger patterns of international politics? Scholars have focused much attention on how alliances form and whether they are driven by balancing, bandwagoning, or other dynamics. 1 They have paid less attention to the role of wedge strategies in disrupting or preventing the formation of alliances and to understanding how and when those strategies succeed. 2

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