Unanswered Threats
Political Constraints on the Balance of Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9821168 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G John Ikenberry (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 160 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Unanswered threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power, Randall L Schweller, 2006 |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20032088 |
| OpenAlex | W3139818788 |
| Language | EN |
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
Balance (ability · Computer security · Economic system · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Brazilian History and Foreign Policy · Computer Science · Law · Psychology
Reconceiving the balance of power
Explaining Co-operation and Conflict in Southern Africa
Grand Strategies of Declining Powers
Rhetoric, Legitimation, and Grand Strategy
The Domestic Sources of Grand Strategy
Rethinking Grand-Strategic Change
Rising Powers
The Enduring Appeal of Grand Strategy
The Difference a Day Makes
Reasoning of State
Contesting Revisionism
Neoclassical realism and resource extraction
Neoclassical realism and domestic interest groups
Political realism and international relations
A Granular Theory of Balancing
Continuity in Indonesia’s Strategy in the South China Sea Under Joko Widodo
Why Thucydides’ Trap Misinforms Sino-American Relations
East Asia International Relations and International Relations Theory
Ambivalent Offshore Balancer
Democratism
On Resilience
Realism, reckless states, and natural selection
Searching for non-aggressive targets
Networks of third-party interveners and civil war duration
The End of Balance-of-Power Theory? A Comment on Wohlforth et al.'s `Testing Balance-of-Power Theory in World History
Social evolution of international politics
Understanding the Challenge of China’s Rise
The Five Eyes Allies and China
Variables Domésticas en La Política Exterior De Paraguay
Indonesia's response to the Belt and Road Initiative and the Indo‐Pacific
A Realist Foreign Policy for the United States
Asean and evolving power relations in East Asia
Bringing technology into the balance of power politics
Rio Branco, grand strategy and naval power
Germany's Unnecessary Hegemony
Adding Some Context
Interests, ideas, and the study of state behaviour in neoclassical realism
Systemic pressures and domestic ideas
When states appease
Structural realism and Dulles's China policy
Making sense of survival
China –India border disputes
Arming China
How long until midnight? Intelligence-policy relations and the United States response to the Israeli nuclear program, 1959–1985
It Takes Two to Tango
Politics does not stop at the ‘nuclear edge
Does Chain-Ganging Cause the Outbreak of War?1
Foreign Targets and Diversionary Conflict
Neoclassical realism and Italy’s military behaviour, 1946–2010
Unclear and present danger
Aid, Peacebuilding, and Human Security
Narratives and International Reconciliation
Belt and Road Initiative
El papel de las variables internas en la negociación política entre Chile y Bolivia. Lauca y Charaña en perspectiva comparada, 1962-1975
The Politics and Limits of the Self
Brokering change
Controversial Identity of a Rising China
Not Very Material but Hardly Immaterial
Neoclassical Realist Theories, Intervening Variables, and Paradigmatic Boundaries
Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions
The Partisan Origins of Great Power Politics
Combining ‘incompatible’ foreign policy explanations
To lead or not to lead
Kenneth Waltz, Adam Smith and the Limits of Science
What drives interstate balancing? Estimations of domestic and systemic factors
Over the threshold
Foreign policy, bipartisanship and the paradox of post-September 11 America
Unpacking the target state response to wedging and binding strategies
Levels of division
Domestic Sources of Russia's China Policy
The mix that makes unipolarity
Balances Without Great Powers
When Doves Feed Hawks
Peripheral Realism Revisited
Politics and International Politics Scholarship
Revisiting the Bandwagoning Hypothesis
US transatlantic leadership after Iraq
Case Study Methods in the International Relations Subfield
Qualitative Methods and Cross-Method Dialogue in Political Science
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |