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  - Stability of International Systems
  - Degree of Territorial Expansion
     - Territorial Outcomes under Unipolar Systems
     - Territorial Outcomes under Bipolar Systems
     - Territorial Outcomes under Multipolar Systems
- The Transhistorical Principles
 
- Anarchy and the Tendency to Hegemonies
 
- International Relations Anarchy in the Theoretical Research of
 
- Realism Relate to Anarchy The Way Constructivism, Neoliberalism, and
 
- Status Quo, Revisionism, and Aspiration for Power
 
 
 
 
- Homeostasis and Preservation of the System
 
- Homeostasis in the International System
 
- Historical Examples Homeostasis in International Systems:
 
 
 
 
- Homeostasis and Feedback Models
 
- War and Homeostasis The International Relations Theory of
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- Polarity of the System: The Independent Variable
 
- System: The State The Most Important Player in the International
 
- Great Power or Polar Power
 
- Polar Power in the Current Study
 
- Between Sea Power and Land Power
 
 
 
 
- Possible Polarity Models
 
- Polarity of the System and International Outcomes
 
 
 
- Summary of the Principle of the Model
 
- Theory of War The Systemic Status of the International Relations
 
- Other Key Realist Theories The International Relations Theory of War and
 
 
 
 
 
- Polarity of the System
 
 
 
 
 
- How the Research Is Empirically Examined
 
 
 
 
- Systemic Factors and Stability of International Systems
 
- Stability of International Systems—Quantitative Research
 
- Multipolar Systems Systemic Factors and the Stability of
 
- The Stability of the Multipolar System, 1849–1870
 
- The Stability of the Multipolar System, 1910–1945
 
- Systemic Factors and the Stability of Bipolar Systems
 
- The Stability of the Bipolar System, 1816–1848
 
- The Stability of the Bipolar System, 1871–1909