Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era

by T.V. Paul

Book Overview

At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world's most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries in the Middle East and South Asia. According to balance-of-power theory--the bedrock of realism in international relations--other states should have joined together militarily to counterbalance the United States' rising power. Yet they did not. Nor have they united to oppose Chinese aggression...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300228481
• ISBN13: 9780300228489
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"