Realism and World Politics
mostly absent from the other species of animal, such that the phenomenon of war is possible within the human race but mostly imp ...
nature. But he also includes in his discussion of this image an explanation of war in terms of personality traits.^28 Human natu ...
act is deemed to be an act of the state by imputation. Waltz does not appear to have seen much importance in differentiating the ...
whatever else may be said about the book, its core message is clear and sound: that there are three ways of looking at internati ...
idea of its permissive cause. But this final equation is problematic in that there may bea number of underlying causes of a part ...
But this transition, or switch, has a cost. Waltz has to find a way of grafting a micro/macro dichotomy on to what was initially ...
country to formulate an economic policy that happens to work to the advantage of all countries is utopian’.^43 Each state’s fail ...
Waltz thinks, however, that mechanistic processes do not always work and the conditions under which they do so are often difficu ...
The Cold War is long over and war itself, in the sense of inter-state war, is no longer a prominent feature of world politics. T ...
10 MSW, p. 234. The fear, however, is ‘derived from’ the fact of international anarchy only through the actors’ awareness of tha ...
54 MSW, p. 118. After the end of the Cold War, Waltz argued that at some point in the near future a multipolar balance-of-power ...
13 LOST IN TRANSITION A critical analysis of power transition theory Richard Ned Lebow and Benjamin Valentino Ken Waltz has grap ...
the dominant power to impose its preferences on other actors. ‘Certain nations are recognized as leaders... Trade is conducted a ...
greatly exaggerate the power of leading states to impose their preferences on the system. In an effort to more carefully examine ...
There is little empirical evidence for the existence of dominant powers in the modern state system. Kaufman, Little and Wohlfort ...
not inflict draconian punishments on defeated major powers. The exceptions are the settlement of the Franco-Prussian War and the ...
for much needed post-war reconstruction, which was further facilitated by American credits and investment. As Germany and Japan ...
citizens than the next most populous European state Russia had by far the largest population in Europe throughout this period. S ...
in its colonies, first in America and later in Ireland and India, it was not able to defeat them. Our measure reveals three patt ...
A critical analysis of power transition theory 221 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,0 00 0 GDP* population (millions) Austri a–Hung ...
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