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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ;
125 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 1 halftone. 10 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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