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Explain the essential rules of the balance of power system and evaluate the role which balance of power plays in the stability of the global order in a multi-polar system.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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Morton A. Kaplan (System and Process in International Politics, 1957) turned the balance of power from a metaphor into a specified international system, one of six models he set out. It has a structural condition (at least five essential national actors) and six behavioural rules that every essential actor must follow if the system is…

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  • Kaplan's six essential rules
  • The balance of power as a source of multipolar stability
  • The limits
  • The emerging multipolar order
  • Conclusion
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