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Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power

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Author(s): SCHWELLER, RANDALL L.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2006

Language: English
Pages: 197
City: Princeton, Oxford

Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
INTRODUCTION: Balance of Power and the Puzzle of Underbalancing Behavior......Page 16
CHAPTER ONE: Prudence in Managing Changes in the Balance of Power......Page 37
CHAPTER TWO: A Theory of Underbalancing: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation......Page 61
CHAPTER THREE: Great-Power Case Studies: Interwar France and Britain, and France, 1877–1913......Page 84
CHAPTER FOUR: Small-Power Case Studies: Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864–1870......Page 100
CHAPTER FIVE: Why Are States So Timid? State Coherence and Expansion in the Age of Mass Politics......Page 118
Notes......Page 146
Bibliography......Page 168
A......Page 180
B......Page 181
C......Page 182
D......Page 183
E......Page 184
F......Page 185
G......Page 186
H......Page 187
K......Page 188
M......Page 189
O......Page 190
P......Page 191
R......Page 192
S......Page 193
T......Page 195
W......Page 196
Z......Page 197