Balance of Power
Title | Balance of Power PDF eBook |
Author | T. V. Paul |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0804750173 |
Since the sudden disappearance of the Soviet Union, many scholars have argued that the balance of power theory is losing its relevance. This text examines this viewpoint, as well as looking at systematic factors that may hinder or favour the return of balance of power politics.
Balance of Power in World History
Title | Balance of Power in World History PDF eBook |
Author | S. Kaufman |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2007-08-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 023059168X |
The balance of power is one of the most influential ideas in international relations, yet it has never been comprehensively examined in pre-modern or non-European contexts. This book redresses this imbalance. The authors present eight new case studies of balancing and balancing failure in pre-modern and non-European international systems.
The Balance Of Power
Title | The Balance Of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Sheehan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2004-11-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134813155 |
The balance of power principle has been central to both the study and practice of international politics for over 300 years. It has guided governments in the conduct of foreign policy and provided a structure for explanations of some of the recurring patterns of international relations. This study examines the various meanings given to the balance of power over the centuries and traces the historical evolution of its theory and practice through steadily more complex forms. It describes the balance principle in practice, both as a guiding light of national foreign policies and as a structural explanation of how the international system operates. The reader is provided with an understanding of the various meanings of the balance principle and the key thinkers and politicians who have influenced its development. The text presents the essence of arguments concerning the morality of the principle as a foreign policy guide and its value as a structural explanation of the fundamental reality of international relations.
Balance of Power
Title | Balance of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Crawford |
Publisher | Microscope Publications Limited |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1986-01-01 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 9780914845973 |
Beyond the Balance of Power
Title | Beyond the Balance of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Jackson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 583 |
Release | 2013-12-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107039940 |
This is a major study of French foreign and security policy in the era of the Great War. Peter Jackson examines the interplay between contending conceptions of security based on traditional practices of power politics and the new internationalist doctrines that emerged in the late nineteenth century.
Balance of Power
Title | Balance of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Richard North Patterson |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 820 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780330490832 |
Patterson's landmark "New York Times" bestselling novel cuts into the heart of politics, law, and the tragedy of gun violence. "A masterpiece . . . . From the first page, President Kilcannon faces plot twists that challenge his resourcefulness and moral character."--"The Tulsa World."
The Balance of Power
Title | The Balance of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Emerson M. S. Niou |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1989-11-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521374712 |
One of the fundamental issues of international relations concerns whether, and under what conditions, stability prevails in anarchic systems--systems in which all authority and institutional restraints to action are wholly endogenous. This book uses the tools provided by contemporary game theory to develop a comprehensive theory of such systems and details both necessary and sufficient conditions for stability. The authors first define two forms of stability--system and resource stability. International political systems are said to be stable when no state confronts the possibility of a loss of sovereignty. Resource stability, in contrast, requires that the current distribution of wealth and power among states can change only due to differences in the vitality of economics. The theory developed in this book refines the classic balance of power theory and formally incorporates into that theory the consideration of endogenous resource growth, preventive war, war costs, and the imperatives of geography, revealing a fundamental conflict between the concepts of "balancers" and "central powers."