POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hard Power, Appeasement, Stanford University Press
28 Jan 2018
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The international system (1): the balance of power. Paul (2004), introduction: the enduring axioms of balance of power theory and their. Theory and practice in the 21st century, stanford university press, pp. Further reading: jack levy (2004), what do great powers balance against and when? in t. v. ), balance of power: theory and practice in the 21st. 29 51: charles jones, victoria tin-bor hui, arthur eckstein, daniel deudney, and william. Brenner (2007), testing balance-of-power theory in world history, european journal of international relations 13:2, pp. 155-185: randall schweller (2008), unanswered threats: political constraints on the balance of. States will do anything they can to maintain a balance of power. If a state becomes to powerful, others will compensate for it > these states are power-gap minimizers. Gb in the 19th century functioned as the offshore balancer of european powers > Premise of gb is to intervene against whomever needs to be intervened against to balance the distribution of power.
