226 Index
Mandated territory, 5, 13, 22–23, 30;
definition of, 23; and territorial
outcomes in polar systems, 110–117t,
119–122t
Material power, 2, 10, 50–52
Mearsheimer, John: on the Cold War,
102; on European Concert, 99–100;
offensive realism, 40, 60–62t; on
polar periods, 68, 69; on polar
power, 49; on stability, 17, 73, 98,
108 tTheory of Great Power Politics,
9, 58, 63
Military power, 2, 10, 50–52, 157
Minor wars: causes of wars by periods,
106 t; causes of wars by polarity
models, 107t, 153t; constraints
dictating the territorial results
of wars, 35t; definition of, 15, 30;
and homeostasis principle, 31, 34,
123–124, 131, 152; and stability,
97, 100–105, 152; and territorial
outcomes, 30, 154; territorial
outcomes in bipolar systems, 32–33,
35 t, 65t, 127–128, 154, 156; territorial
outcomes in multipolar systems, 33,
34, 35t, 65t, 123–124, 154; territorial
outcomes in unipolar systems, 31,
35 t, 65t, 130–131, 156
Morgenthau, Hans, 39–40, 47, 49, 60t,
108 t
Mubarak, Hosni, 157
Multipolar systems: causes of war
by periods, 106t; causes of war
by polarity models, 107t, 153t;
combined length of six instances of
polarity models, 68t; definition of,
14; stability under (1849–, 28, 29t,
75–78, 82–97, 105–109, 152, 153t;
territorial outcomes under, 33–34,
109, 110–117t, 118, 123–127, 147–149t,
154, 156
Musharraf, Pervez, 145
Neoliberalism, 36, 38
Neorealism, 7, 10, 36–38, 40–41, 49, 54,
59, 60–62t, 100, 101, 151
Nicholson, Michael, 71
Nomonhan War, 77, 78t, 116t
Obama, Barack, 157
Offensive realism, 7, 10, 38, 40–42,
60–62t, 151
Organski, A. F. K., 9, 39Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd
Viscount, 86, 134
Paris Agreement, 134
Peace of Westphalia (1648), 36, 42, 159
Polar powers, definition of, 14
Polarity in the system, 67–69;
combined length of six instances
of polarity models, 68t; definition
of, 14; summary of polarity of the
system, 67t; three periods of, 68–69.
See also Bipolar systems; Multipolar
systems; Unipolar systems
Political idealism, 1, 92, 144
Political realism (realist theory), 1,
16, 91, 93, 151; compared with
international relations theory of
war, 47–48, 51, 53–54, 57, 59, 60–62t;
on stability, 102, 105, 108t; and
transhistorical principles, 36–42
Power: aspiration for, 9, 28, 36, 39, 42, 50,
58, 61t, 89–90, 92, 94, 98, 123, 125, 132,
136; economic power, 2, 10, 50–52,
157; great power and polar power,
49–53; land power, 50–53; material
power, 2, 10, 50–52; military power,
2, 10, 50–52, 157; revisionist, 36, 38,
39–42, 56, 60–61t, 63, 151; sea power,
50–53; status quo, 39–40, 56, 61tRealist theory. See political realism
Revisionism, 36, 38, 39–42, 56, 60–61t,
63, 151
Russo-Finnish War, 77, 78t, 117t
Russo-Polish War, 76, 77t, 115tSchweller, Randall, 17, 39–40, 49,
68–69, 92
Sea power, 50–53
Secession, 5, 13, 22–23, 30; definition of,
22; and territorial outcomes in polar
systems, 110–117t, 119–122t; United
Kingdom vote to secede from
European Union, 158