The opening frames treaty design as a way to separate long-term security aims from short-term domestic pressures. Comparing the historical agreement with a deliberately equitable model helps reveal who benefited, which risks were discounted, and where political presentation displaced strategic logic. The model is a diagnostic baseline rather than a claim that perfectly fair diplomacy was available. It provides a practical way to ask why the enacted treaty departed from the signatories' stated security goals.
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Using an equitable treaty as an analytical baseline
An equitable baseline exposes the domestic politics and strategic assumptions hidden inside naval treaties.