Showing 1 through 5 of 409 records. | 2. Hansen, Kenneth. "To Balance or Not to Balance? A Neoclassical Realist Analysis of Russian Behavior Toward NATO Enlargement 1991-2004" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL, <Not Available>. 2009-12-03 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p268125_index.html>Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: I explain Russian balancing behavior toward NATO Eastern enlargement as a function of contention within elites whether NATO enlargement constitutes a threat to Russia’s national interests or whether balancing is the appropriate response. |
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| 3. Bossler, Adam. "Testing Control Balance Theory’s Predictions Regarding the Causes of General Deviance and Control Balance Desirability" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Royal York, Toronto, <Not Available>. 2009-12-03 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p33250_index.html>Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study is the first to examine control balance theory’s predictions regarding the commission of some sort of deviance (i.e. general deviance) and deviance that falls within ranges of control balance desirability. Four hundred forty students were surveyed using a random sample of courses offered during the summer of 2004 at a Midwestern university. Findings from binomial and ordered logistic regression models will be presented and the implications for control balance theory will be discussed. |
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| 4. Taliaferro, Jeffrey. "American Realism and the Balancing of Power: Balance-of-Power Theories and Debates on U.S. Grand Strategy (1945-2005)" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, <Not Available>. 2009-12-03 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p151543_index.html>Publication Type: Proceeding |
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| 5. Kaufman, Stuart. and Wohlforth, William. "Balancing and Balancing Failure in Biblical Times" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-12-03 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64467_index.html>Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
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Abstract: Balance of power theory purports to be universal but it is a product of—and has mainly been tested against—the modern European experience. The advent of unipolarity and the absence of great-power balancing since 1991 raise the question of whether balancing orders are contingent on factors unspecified in the theory that were present in the European international system and its 20th century global successor but absent today, and perhaps from other historical inter-state systems. This paper is part of a collaborative effort to address this question by expanding the empirical domain in which balance of power theory can be tested. We evaluate the theory's central proposition—that major states in any system balance potential hegemons—in the case of the rise of Assyria in Biblical times. Brute outcomes are inconsistent with the theory: balancing failed to prevent Assyria from creating an empire that dominated a unipolar system and marginalized balancing dynamics for over a century. Moreover, key causes of the emergence, suppression, and then reemergence of a balancing order in the Iron Age system lie outside current renderings of the theory. Balancing tendencies were observable in Biblical times, but they were much weaker and less consequential than standard treatments of balance of power theory would lead us to expect. |
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