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Rhodes, Edward. "The Unbalanced Society? Liberalism, Nationalism, Post-Trinitarianism, and the Functioning of International Society without the Institution of Balance of Power" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA, Feb 28, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p181193_index.html>

Rhodes, E. , 2007-02-28 "The Unbalanced Society? Liberalism, Nationalism, Post-Trinitarianism, and the Functioning of International Society without the Institution of Balance of Power" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p181193_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Balance of power was one of the central institutions posited by Hedley Bull in the functioning of international society. And, indeed, in the emergence of an early modern society of European states, balance of power was a critical feature of that society, both positively and normatively. In the late modern and postmodern periods, however, the great powers have not ?balanced,? nor (despite lingering rhetorical uses of the term) have they seen balance as a normatively desirable goal. The decline of balance of power as a political and social institution can be understood in terms of the rise and decline of other institutions ? most obviously the rise of liberalism and of nationalism and the decline of trinitarian conceptions of political violence. Balance of power as a critical institution in the functioning of international society thus needs to be understood as historically contingent. As continued attempts to understand international society and the behavior of the international system in terms of balance suggest, theorists of international relations have been slow to appreciate this, or to explore the emergence of other institutions that serve an analogous function to balance of power in late modern and postmodern international society.

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