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Realism&Balancing

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

REALISM

  • Human Nature:
  • Selfish and constant
  • States are also behave in self interested manner
  • Conflict is unavoidable
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ANARCHISM

  • No coercive power that can;
  • Resolve disputes
  • Enforce law & order

Realists developed a theory how power
is distributed
This idea referred
"Balance of Power"

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2 Types of balancing

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THE REALIST THEORY CONSIDERS

  • A state actor will take its advantage of strength
  • Thereby ,providing incentive for those threatened to unite
  • A defensive coalition raised .
  • When confronted by a significant external states balance,
  • Or bandwagon..
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BANDWAGONNING

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  • A state aligns with a stronger adversarial power
  • A strategy employed by weak states
  • Thucydides ; famous dictum ;
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' the strong do what they can , and the weak suffer what they must'

CHAIN-GANGING

Seeing your own security tied to an alliance

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  • This an another aspect of balancing
  • Smaller states may consolidate their power with others
  • Whereby; drag their chained states into wars.
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WHY?

States choose to balance
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