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When discussing the costs and benefits of alliance membership for small states, it is easy to forget the main questions concerning the overall functioning of the alliance in the international system and its effects on international relations: Does it provide for peace and stability in the system? Does it provide security to the member states? These problems pertain to the general dimension of alliance membership. Considering the potentially catastrophic consequences of a ‘no’ to these questions about the potential benefit, the costs of membership to individual members is on some accounts a question of second rank.
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Christensen, S.A. (2001). The Danish Experience. Denmark in NATO, 1949–1999. In: Reiter, E., Gärtner, H. (eds) Small States and Alliances. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13000-1_9
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