Unanswered Threats Political Constraints on the Balance of Power

Name: Unanswered Threats Political Constraints on the Balance of Power
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ISBN: 9780691136462

ISBN-10: 0691136467

ISBN-13: 9780691136462

Edition: 2006

Authors: Randall L. Schweller

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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…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.02" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



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Preface


Introduction: Balance of Power and the Puzzle of Underbalancing Behavior



Prudence in Managing Changes in the Balance of Power



A Theory of Underbalancing: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation



Great-Power Case Studies: Interwar France and Britain, and France, 1877-1913



Small-Power Case Studies: Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870



Why Are States So Timid? State Coherence and Expansion in the Age of Mass Politics


Notes


Bibliography


Index