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Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power | Synapse

January 1, 2006

Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power

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List of Illustrations ix Preface xi INTORDUCTION: Balance of Power and the Puzzle of Underbalancing Behavior 1 CHAPTER ONE: Prudence in Managing Changes in the Balance of Power 22 CHAPTER TWO: A Theory of Underbalancing: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation 46 CHAPTER THREE: Great-Power Case Studies: Interwar France and B Bitain, and France, 1877-1913 69 CHAPTER FOUR: Small-Power Case Studies: Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870 85 CHAPTER FIVE: Why Are States So Timid? State Coherence and Expansion in the Age of Mass Politics 103 Notes 131 Bibliography 153 Index 165

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1cbd13c9d372840a89a7b3 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2307/20032088