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The Differences Between International Competitive Dynamics and Domestic Relations
There's no essentially higher authority that really has a strong ability to compel the lower down players to abide by agreements. Most agreements between states are mostly self enforcing, whether enforced by threats of retaliation or reputational concerns and things like that. The cost of being a laggard is just potentially much, much higher, which implies that there's more willingness to take risks. And for what it's worth, I think they did miscalculate the yield of the test.