Restraining great powers : soft balancing from empires to the global era /

"At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world's most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries in the Middle East and South Asia. According to balance-of-power theory--the bedrock of realism in international relations--other s...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Paul, T. V. (Auteur)
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press [2018]
Online toegang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv5cg9s2
Inhoudsopgave:
  • Balance of power today
  • Restraint by other means
  • Soft balancing from concert to Cold War
  • Balancing during the Cold War
  • The post-Cold War era : restraining the United States
  • Rising China and soft balancing
  • Balancing resurgent Russia
  • The future of balance of power.