Journal Article - Quarterly Journal: International Security

Balancing in Neorealism

| Fall 2015

Summary

Do great powers balance against each other, as neorealist theory predicts? Over the past two centuries, great powers have typically avoided external balancing via alliance formation, but they have consistently engaged in internal balancing by arming and imitating the military advances of their rivals.

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For Academic Citation: Joseph M. Parent and Sebastian Rosato. “Balancing in Neorealism.” Quarterly Journal: International Security, vol. 40. no. 2. (Fall 2015):
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Joseph M. Parent

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