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Levy, Jack. and Thompson, William. "Balancing and War" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p70964_index.html>

Levy, J. S. and Thompson, W. R. , 2005-03-05 "Balancing and War" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p70964_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Driven by both theoretical concerns and contemporary international security issues, scholars have been giving increased attention to balance of power theory and to balancing behavior in particular. In our own work on these questions, we have attempted to clarify the meaning of the balance of power concept, specify key propositions about great power balancing, identify the scope conditions within those propositions are most likely to be valid, and test these propositions over the last five centuries. In this paper we turn our attention to the relationship between balancing and war. Is great power balancing against hegemonic threats most likely to occur during peacetime, or does it take the outbreak of war to emphasize the seriousness of security threats and trigger balancing behavior? How frequently is great power balancing against hegemonic threats during peacetime followed by great power war? That is, does balancing behavior deter war or provoke it? In addition, what is the impact of balancing on the distribution of power in the system? We focus on great power balancing in the European system from 1495-1999. We define balancing in terms of alliance formation and construct a dataset on great power targeted alliances over the last five centuries. We define power in terms of land-based military power, operationalize it in terms of army size, and use the Rasler and Thompson (1994) data on European armies and the Levy (1983) data on war.

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