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Comment: Balance of power and its impact on world politics.

  • UPSC 2003
  • 20 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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The balance of power is a distribution of capability in which no state or coalition can dominate the rest, maintained by states arming themselves and combining against any would-be hegemon. Hans J. Morgenthau (Politics Among Nations, 1948) called it an essential stabilising factor in a society of sovereign states. Woodrow Wilson called it the cause…

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