Author profile: Harry Booty

Harry Booty is currently a Commissioning Editor for e-IR. He is currently studying a BA War Studies degree at King’s College London.

The Balance of Power: a Cause of War, a Condition of Peace, or Both?

Harry Booty • Jan 31 2011 • Essays

The theory of the balance of power, where the distribution of power is equally shared amongst the appropriate entities, is a concept crucial to the study of International Relations and of war. When studied in relation to the 19th century, we can see that it is a major part of both contemporary and modern literature, thinking and politics

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