Unanswered Threats : : Political Constraints on the Balance of Power / / Randall L. Schweller.
Why have states throughout history regularly underestimated dangers to their survival? Why have some states been able to mobilize their material resources effectively to balance against threats, while others have not been able to do so? The phenomenon of "underbalancing" is a common but wo...
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Schweller, Randall L., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Unanswered Threats : Political Constraints on the Balance of Power / Randall L. Schweller. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010] ©2006 1 online resource (200 p.) : 1 halftone. 10 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ; 125 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Balance of Power and the Puzzle of Underbalancing Behavior -- Chapter 1. Prudence in Managing Changes in the Balance of Power -- Chapter 2. A Theory of Underbalancing: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation -- Chapter 3. Great-Power Case Studies: Interwar France and Britain, and France, 1877-1913 -- Chapter 4. Small-Power Case Studies: Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870 -- Chapter 5. Why Are States So Timid? State Coherence and Expansion in the Age of Mass Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Why have states throughout history regularly underestimated dangers to their survival? Why have some states been able to mobilize their material resources effectively to balance against threats, while others have not been able to do so? The phenomenon of "underbalancing" is a common but woefully underexamined behavior in international politics. Underbalancing occurs when states fail to recognize dangerous threats, choose not to react to them, or respond in paltry and imprudent ways. It is a response that directly contradicts the core prediction of structural realism's balance-of-power theory--that states motivated to survive as autonomous entities are coherent actors that, when confronted by dangerous threats, act to restore the disrupted balance by creating alliances or increasing their military capabilities, or, in some cases, a combination of both. Consistent with the new wave of neoclassical realist research, Unanswered Threats offers a theory of underbalancing based on four domestic-level variables--elite consensus, elite cohesion, social cohesion, and regime/government vulnerability--that channel, mediate, and redirect policy responses to external pressures and incentives. The theory yields five causal schemes for underbalancing behavior, which are tested against the cases of interwar Britain and France, France from 1877 to 1913, and the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) that pitted tiny Paraguay against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Randall Schweller concludes that those most likely to underbalance are incoherent, fragmented states whose elites are constrained by political considerations. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Balance of power Case studies. Balance of power History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691136462 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400837854 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400837854 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400837854.jpg |
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