THE CAUSES OF ALLIANCE FORMATION: A theory-testing analysis of the Waltian factors contextualised by Franco-German cooperation during the Boxer rebellion
The purpose of this thesis is to test Stephen Walt’s theory of alliance formation and the factors affecting this in the case of Franco-German cooperation during the Boxer Rebellion in China. This rebellion was, in part, an anti-foreign peasant uprising at end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries; it was given official sanction by the Qing dynasty and was quickly suppressed by the Eight-
