Soft Balancing From Empires to The Global Era Paul, T. V. Primary Author mixed material bibliography New Haven, CT Yale University Press 2018 en English

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xv, 239 pages : illust ; 25 cm At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world's most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries in the Middle East and South Asia. According to balance-of-power theory--the bedrock of realism in international relations--other states should have joined together militarily to counterbalance the U.S.'s rising power. Yet they did not. Nor have they united to oppose Chinese aggression in the South China Sea or Russian offensives along its Western border. This does not mean balance-of-power politics is dead, argues renowned international relations scholar T.V. Paul, but that it has taken a different form. Rather than employ familiar strategies such as active military alliances and arms buildups, leading powers have engaged in "soft balancing," which seeks to restrain threatening powers through the use of international institutions, informal alignments, and economic sanctions. Paul places the evolution of balancing behavior in historical perspective from the post-Napoleonic era to today's globalized world. International Relations Balance of Power Soft balancing from concert to Cold War Rising China and soft balancing The future of balance of power 327.112 9780300228489 e-Library Universitas Pertamina Be Global Leader 327.112 PAU r 9279/PUP/2020 Perpustakaan Universitas Pertamina 327.112 PAU r c.1 81CwopZcuioppradana09052022.jpg.jpg 4907 2022-05-09 16:53:56 2023-01-30 16:26:41 machine generated