Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest

By Randall L. Schweller

Book Overview

Scholars frequently portray World War II as an epic morality play driven by a villain (Hitler) and a sinner (Chamberlain). This book offers a fresh approach, combining both the attributes of states and the structure of the international system to explain the origins and causes of World War II. Central to the analysis is the argument that the structure of the international system was tripolar - with Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States as the three central powers - and not multipolar and that this needs to be considered in any examination of the antecedent causes and crucial events of the war.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231110731
• ISBN13: 9780231110730
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher