| | Number sort to group items | 01 |
| | 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 |
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| | What-necesary | What are minimal requirements or conditions of the Theory |
| | How-test | . |
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