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Class-Defined .

Theory-name Realism - [according to who?]

Theory-Purpose Unregulated competition of states, each state's interests are paramount, success is defined

as preserving and strengthening each state -Waltz -ToIP p. 117 minimum = seek own

survival, maximum = seek universal domination.

Note Power = Ability to Coerce -Waltz. Balance of power theory claims to explain the results of

states actions under given conditions, and those results may not be foreshadowed in any

actors' motives or be constrained as objectives in their policies.

Definition-power Power balancing routine characteristic of states. -Waltz -ToIP p. 117 Definitions of why -

differ. "Balance of Power politics prevails when two requirements are met: order is anarchic

and it is populated by units wishing to survive."p.121

Measure-success .

Motivation-Actors All states act alike -, Mo

Discuss- Foreign-relations Balance of Power is a theory about results produced by the uncoordinated actions of states.

Explains the constraints which confine all states. This in turn provides many clues to the

expected reactions of states.

National-Interest

System-Change-Stability .

Prescriptions .

Reliability .

Literature-Defined .

Theoretical-Proposition Self-interested states compete constantly for power or security

Units-Analysis States

Instruments Economics and especially military power

Modern-Theorists Hans Margenthau, Kenneth Waltz

Modern-Works Waltz, Theory of International Politics Mearsheimer, Back to the Future: Instability in

Europe after the Cold War" (International Security, 1990)-[IROWMT]

Post-Cold-War Resurgence of overt great power competition

Limitation Does Not account for International Change -where sources of change in economy or

Reference OWMT = International Relations: ONE WORLD, MANY THEORIES , By: Walt, Stephen M.,

Foreign Policy, 00157228, Spring98, Issue 110 covers p29, 17p

link .

Sort-Catagories .

What-necesary What are minimal requirements or conditions of the Theory

How-test .

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