Int Rel Theo War

Table 5.2Summary of Territorial Expansion of Polar Powers at the End of Wars, 1816–2016

The Territorial Result at the End of the War

Type of Polarity

Number of Wars

Total of Three Types of Territorial Expansion

Territorial Expansion

Territorial Contraction

Territorial Status Quo

Number

% of Totalof Changes

Number

% of Totalof Changes

Number

% of Totalof Changes

Bipolarity,1816–1848,1871–1909,1946–1991

5

5

0

0

0

0

5

100%

Multipolarity,1849–1870,1910–1945

18

80

36

45%

38

48%

6

7%

Unipolarity,1992–2016

2

2

2

100%

0

0

0

0