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Audience Costs: An Historical Analysis Marc Trachtenberg Department of Political Science University of California at Los Angeles October 4, 2011  It used to be taken for granted that relative power and relative interest were of fundamental importance in determining how international crises run their course—that the weak would defer to the strong and the side that cared less about the issues at stake would tend to give way in the dispute. But in an important article published in 1994, James Fearon argued that in a rational world relative power and relative interest and indeed anything obser