Bloodless Coup

What's Needed to Form Multilateral Coalitions in IR?

Generally, bad ideas that potential allies think are doomed to fail aren't a good place to start.

Read this Matt Yglesias post. It gets at a key point dealing with situations in which coalitions are NOT likely to form, and argues that this affected the direction of French foreign policy in 2002 and 2003. While it may come as a shock to some, the French weren't disagreeing with American foreign policy because they hate freedom.