| In this study, I account for a major power's commitments to defense-pact allies and their impact on a major power's active militarized dispute engagement against states outside its alliance(s) in the context of global capability concentration.; The findings show mostly with high global capability concentration that choices of alliance commitments are affected by national capabilities, the possession of nuclear weapons, threat exposure, military success, and military support. Active militarized dispute engagement, understood in terms of militarized dispute initiation, serious militarized dispute involvement, and the initiation of war, is affected by the number of alliance commitments, distributions of bilateral versus multilateral alliance ties, distributions of territorial settlement versus non-territorial settlement alliance bonds, and, when it comes to war initiation, also allied capabilities. |
