Index
Page numbers followed by an italicized “t” refer to tables.
Afghanistan: First Anglo–Afghan War,
133–137, 138; Second Anglo–Afghan
War, 137–138; Soviet–Afghan War,
72, 131, 140–141, 146, 149t; territorial
outcomes at end of wars against,
131–146; Third Anglo–Afghan War,
138–139. See also United States
invasion of Afghanistan
Al Qaeda, 6, 56, 104–105, 142, 145, 158
Anarchy principle, 3, 7, 26, 36–47; and
aspiration for power, 36, 39, 42, 61t;
and constructivism, 38–39; definition
of, 16, 27, 36; and First World War, 89;
and homeostasis principle, 42–47; in
international relations theory of war,
54–55, 61–62t, 64t, 73–74, 108; and
neoliberalism, 38–39; and offensive
realism, 38, 40–42; and polarity,
53–55; and revisionism, 36, 38, 39–42;
and stability in multipolar systems,
4; and stability in unipolar systems,
101–102, 104; and status quo powers,
39–40; and tendency to hegemonies,
36–47; and territorial outcomes, 108;
and territorial expansion in bipolar
systems, 32–33; and territorial
outcomes in multipolar systems,
28, 34, 124; and territorial outcomes
in unipolar systems, 28, 104, 131; in
theoretical research of international
relations, 36–38
Anglo–Afghan Wars: and difference
model, 72; First Anglo–Afghan War,
120, 133–137, 138; Second Anglo–
Afghan War, 120, 123, 137–138; Third
Anglo–Afghan War, 123, 138–139
Annexation, 5, 13, 22–23, 30, 92–94,
96; definition of, 22; and territorial
outcomes in polar systems, 110–117t,
119–122t
Appeasement, 94
Arab Spring, 157–158
Aspiration for power, 9, 28, 36, 39, 42,
50, 58, 61t, 89–90, 92, 94, 98, 123, 125,
132, 136
Assad, Bashar al–, 157–158
Auckland, Lord, 134, 135Balancing, 3, 9, 26, 58, 59
Bandwagoning, 3, 9, 26, 58, 59