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Unanswered threats: political constraints on the balance of power

Author(s) -

Randall L. Schweller

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

choice reviews online

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1523-8253

pISSN - 0009-4978

DOI - 10.5860/choice.44-1785

Subject(s) - politics , balance (ability) , power (physics) , political science , computer security , political economy , computer science , economics , law , medicine , physical medicine and rehabilitation , physics , quantum mechanics

List of Illustrations ix Preface xi INTORDUCTION: Balance of Power and the Puzzle of Underbalancing Behavior 1 CHAPTER ONE: Prudence in Managing Changes in the Balance of Power 22 CHAPTER TWO: A Theory of Underbalancing: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation 46 CHAPTER THREE: Great-Power Case Studies: Interwar France and B Bitain, and France, 1877-1913 69 CHAPTER FOUR: Small-Power Case Studies: Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870 85 CHAPTER FIVE: Why Are States So Timid? State Coherence and Expansion in the Age of Mass Politics 103 Notes 131 Bibliography 153 Index 165

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