Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Measuring and Assessing Latent Variation in Alliance Design and
  Objectives   The alliance literature is bifurcated between an empirically-driven approach
utilizing rigorous data, and a theoretically-motivated approach offering a rich
conceptualization of alliances. Within the strength of one, lays the weakness
of the other. While the former invokes a non-comprehensive view of alliances
that emphasizes capability aggregation, the latter does not provide a
systematic or rigorous approach to uncover empirical insights. I unify these
perspectives, enumerating the roles a state can adopt within the alliance
network and considering the relationship between that role and how they design
their local alliance network to accomplish role-based objectives. To uncover
this variation, I employ a novel methodological tool, the ego-TERGM. Results
indicate that states form alliances to accomplish a variety of foreign policy
objectives beyond capability aggregation, including the consolidation of
non-security ties and the pursuit of domestic reforms in addition to
security-based motivations.

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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cs
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th