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The balance of power is a venerable concept in international relations theory, but it is plagued by ambiguities about what the concept means and what the theory purports to explain, and the key proposition that states balance against concentrations of power or hegemonic threats is rarely if ever subjected to systematic empirical test. We argue that despite these ambiguities and disagreements, there is one proposition that nearly all balance of power theorists and their critics as well would accept as an accurate reflection of the theory and that provides the basis for a
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Name: American Political Science Association
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| Levy, Jack. and Thompson, William. "Hegemonic Threats and Great Power Balancing in Europe, 1494/5-2000" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66366_index.html> |
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| Levy, J. S. and Thompson, W. R. , 2002-08-28 "Hegemonic Threats and Great Power Balancing in Europe, 1494/5-2000" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66366_index.html |
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Abstract: The balance of power is a venerable concept in international relations theory, but it is plagued by ambiguities about what the concept means and what the theory purports to explain, and the key proposition that states balance against concentrations of power or hegemonic threats is rarely if ever subjected to systematic empirical test. We argue that despite these ambiguities and disagreements, there is one proposition that nearly all balance of power theorists and their critics as well would accept as an accurate reflection of the theory and that provides the basis for a
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| Hegemonic Threats and Great Power Balancing in Europe 1494/52000 Jack S. Levy (Rutgers University) and William R. Thompson (Indiana University) Jack S. Levy Department of Political Science Rutgers University 89 George Street New Brunswick NJ 089011411 USA. tel (732) 9321073; fax (732) 9327170. jacklevy@rci.rutgers.edu; http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jacklevy/ William R. Thompson Department of Political Science Woodburn Hall 210 Indiana University Bloomington Indiana 470456001. tel (812) 8553738; fax (812) 8552027; wthompso@indiana.edu Prepared for delivery at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political |
| of landbased military power and a large balancing coalition but no war. Stated differently a hegemonic threat led to prewar balancing in response to the fear of military expansion rather than to interwar balancing in response to expansion. Note however that the Cold War period was confounded with other variables that might also explain the absence of general war including the existence of nuclear weapons and the shift away from a European system that was ``subsystem dominant'' (Kaplan 1957) |
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