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The Balance of Power: Stability in International Systems - Hardcover

Emerson M. S. Niou, Peter C. Ordeshook, Gregory F. Rose

 
9780521374712: The Balance of Power: Stability in International Systems
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521374715 ISBN 13: 9780521374712
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This book uses the tools of game theory to develop a comprehensive theory of anarchic systems.

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Review

"The book's contributions to our understanding of international relations are broad and significant...Ordeshook, Niou, and Rose have done a superb job of making the technical aspects of their book easily accessible." Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

"This is a volume that no scholar of international relations can safely ignore." Journal of Politics

Book Description

This book uses the tools of game theory to develop a comprehensive theory of anarchic systems and details both necessary and sufficient conditions for stability. The theory developed 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'.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521374715
ISBN 13 
9780521374712
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
368