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The Balance of
Power in
International
Relations:
Metaphors, Myths
and Models
RICHARD LITTLE

CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS

Contents

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Part I Introduction
1

Reassessing the balance of power

Part II Metaphors, myths and models

2

Metaphors and the balance of power

The balance of power: from metaphors to myths and

models

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[Part III Balance of power models

89

Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations

91

Hedley Bull's The Anarchical Society

128

Kenneth N. Waltz's Theory of International Politics

167

7 John J. Mearsheimer's The Tragedy of Great Power

Politics

^ Part IV Conclusion
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A composite view of the balance of power for the

twenty-first century
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