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Our earlier research on great power balancing behavior emphasized the different kinds of threats posed by land powers and sea powers and their consequences for balances and balancing. We demonstrated that while great powers have systematically balanced against land powers that approached a position of hegemony in Europe (but not against weaker leading land powers), great powers have not balanced against sea powers posing comparable threats of dominance in the global system. This paper builds on our earlier work. We examine the evolution of balancing strategies over the last five centuries of the European system and the global system. We emphasize the importance of particular structural and contextual factors, and argue that the European system and the global system for the last five centuries were characterized by a distinctive set of arrangements that are probably not generalizable to other systems. |
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| Levy, Jack. and Thompson, William. "Land Powers, Sea Powers, and the Evolution of Balancing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p210970_index.html> |
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| Levy, J. S. and Thompson, W. R. , 2007-08-30 "Land Powers, Sea Powers, and the Evolution of Balancing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p210970_index.html |
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Abstract: Our earlier research on great power balancing behavior emphasized the different kinds of threats posed by land powers and sea powers and their consequences for balances and balancing. We demonstrated that while great powers have systematically balanced against land powers that approached a position of hegemony in Europe (but not against weaker leading land powers), great powers have not balanced against sea powers posing comparable threats of dominance in the global system. This paper builds on our earlier work. We examine the evolution of balancing strategies over the last five centuries of the European system and the global system. We emphasize the importance of particular structural and contextual factors, and argue that the European system and the global system for the last five centuries were characterized by a distinctive set of arrangements that are probably not generalizable to other systems. |
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| Land Powers Sea Powers and the Evolutionof the Balance of Power Jack S. Levy WilliamR. Thompson Dept. of Political Science Dept. of Political Science Rutgers University Indiana University New Brunswick NJ 08901 Bloomington Indiana 47405 jacklevy@rci.rutgers.edu wthompso@indiana.edu Prepared for delivery to the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association Chicago Illinois August 2007. 1 LAND POWERS SEA POWERS AND THE EVOLUTIONOF THE BALANCE OF POWER We think we know a great deal about the balance of power. States |
| British appeasement and French abandonmentof Czechoslovakia not balancing -Anti-German multilateral alliances collapsed -Italy Vichy France Hungary Bulgaria and Rumania bandwagoned while neutrals (Sweden Turkey Switzerland Spain) leaned toward Germany as long as it was winning the war -Once the Germans appeared to be losing states began bandwagoning to the opposite side. Source: based on Schroeder (1994: 120-124). Note that Schroeder also discusses a fourth case the Crimean War that has been deleted for present purposes because it does not |
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