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One of the fundamental issues of international relations concerns whether, and under what conditions, stability prevails in anarchic systems--systems in which all authority and institutional restraints to action are wholly endogenous. This book uses the tools provided by contemporary game theory to develop a comprehensive theory of such systems and details both necessary and sufficient conditions for stability. The authors first define two forms of stability--system and resource stability. International political systems are said to be stable when no state confronts the possibility of a loss of sovereignty. Resource stability, in contrast, requires that the current distribution of wealth and power among states can change only due to differences in the vitality of economics. The theory developed in this book refines the classic balance of power theory and formally incorporates into that theory the consideration of endogenous resource growth, preventive war, war costs, and the imperatives of geography, revealing a fundamental conflict between the concepts of "balancers" and "central powers."
Llegir més - Autors Peter C. (California Institute Of Technology) Ordeshook, Gregory F. Rose
- ISBN13 9780521376150
- ISBN10 0521376157
- Pàgines 368
- Any Edició 2007
- Fecha de publicación 01/02/2007
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Balance of Power: Stability in International Systems (Alemany, Francès)
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- Peter C. (California Institute Of Technology) Ordeshook, Gregory F. Rose
- 9780521376150



