The Balance of Power in World History

The balance of power is one of the most influential ideas in international relations, yet it has never been systemically and comprehensively examined in pre-modern or non-European contexts. This book redresses this imbalance. The authors present eight new case studies of balancing and balancing failure in pre-modern and non-European international systems. The collective, multidisciplinary and international research effort yields an inescapable conclusion: much of the conventional wisdom about the balance of power does not survive intact with non-European evidence.

Author: S. Kaufman
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/01/2007
Pages: 290
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.25w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780230507111

About the Author
WILLIAM J. BRENNER Doctoral Candidate, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA DANIEL DEUDNEY Associate Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA ARTHUR M. ECKSTEIN Professor of History, University of Maryland at College Park, USA VICTORIA TIN-BOR HUI Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Notre Dame, USA CHARLES JONES Reader in the History of International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK DAVID KANG Associate Professor of Government, and Adjunct Associate Professor and Research Director, Center for International Business, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth, USA