The Balance of Power

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 7
INTRODUCTION......Page 9
DEFINITIONS......Page 10
BALANCE OF POWER AND ‘REALISM’......Page 12
THE CENTRALITY OF POWER......Page 15
THE PURSUIT OF POWER......Page 19
ALTERNATIVE MEANINGS OF THE BALANCE OF POWER......Page 23
THE GREEK CITY-STATES......Page 32
THE RENAISSANCE......Page 37
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY......Page 44
EUROPEAN EQUILIBRIUM AND THE GENERAL CRISIS......Page 52
THE WAR OF THE LEAGUE OF AUGSBURG AND THE RISE OF BRITAIN......Page 56
CONCLUSION......Page 60
3 Balance of power policies......Page 61
ALLIANCES......Page 62
THE RESORT TO WAR......Page 67
THE SEPARATE PEACE AS A TACTIC......Page 71
THE BALANCER......Page 73
PARTITION AND COMPENSATION......Page 79
MODERATION......Page 82
CONCLUSION......Page 83
INTRODUCTION......Page 84
VARIETIES OF BALANCE OF POWER SYSTEMS......Page 91
SYSTEMS AND THE BALANCE OF POWER......Page 94
SUB-BALANCES AND THE GENERAL BALANCE......Page 100
SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE......Page 104
INTRODUCTION......Page 106
LIMITED WARFARE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY......Page 108
THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION......Page 114
THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SYSTEM IN OPERATION......Page 117
THE CHALLENGE OF NAPOLEON......Page 125
INTRODUCTION......Page 130
THE CONCERT SYSTEM......Page 132
THE COLLAPSE OF THE CONCERT SYSTEM......Page 140
THE ‘UNSTABLE EQUILIBRIUM’ 1890–1914......Page 143
THE CONCEPT OF THE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY......Page 145
INTRODUCTION......Page 154
THE MARXIST-LENINIST CORRELATION OF FORCES CONCEPT......Page 155
COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND THE BALANCE OF POWER......Page 161
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BALANCE OF POWER AND COLLECTIVE SECURITY......Page 165
COLLECTIVE SECURITY IN PRACTICE......Page 167
BALANCING AND BANDWAGONING......Page 171
THE ‘ASSOCIATIVE’ BALANCE OF POWER......Page 176
CONCLUSIONS......Page 178
INTRODUCTION......Page 179
NUCLEAR DETERRENCE......Page 180
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BALANCE OF POWER AND BALANCE OF TERROR......Page 185
INTERACTIONS IN THE ‘MIXED’ BALANCE OF POWER......Page 190
THE QUESTION OF STABILITY......Page 194
ARMS CONTROL......Page 198
NEO-REALISM AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR......Page 201
REALIST VERSUS NEO-GROTIAN APPROACHES TO THE BALANCE OF POWER......Page 207
RECOVERING THE CONCEPT......Page 209
Bibliography and further reading......Page 214
Index......Page 233