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Mind Map by ktuffin_95, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ktuffin_95
almost 11 years ago
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What is the balance of power, and how effective is it in preventing war?
- What is the balance of power?
- Even distribution of power between rival blocs
- An inherent tendency in international affairs to produce an even distribution of power
- Cold War bipolarity
- relies on an equilibruim between two poles - USSR and USA
- relies on an equilibruim between two poles - USSR and USA
- Even distribution of power between rival blocs
- Realists
- War is avoided
- Prevents triumph of dominant power
- No Total War since WW2
- No Total War since WW2
- MAD - attack would be unsuccessful
- Prevents triumph of dominant power
- War is avoided
- Liberals
- Legitimises state egoism
- States compete to become the hegemon
- States compete to become the hegemon
- Fosters military growth
- Nuclear Arms Race
Annotations:
- Lead to Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 Even other states began to stockpile nuclear weapons - though none on a scale similar to the superpowers.
- Nuclear Arms Race
- Proxy War
Annotations:
- Just because no direct action took place, wars were fought via proxy - Afghanistan (US funded Mujahideen to fight Soviet-led Afghans) and Vietnam (North Vietnam - USSR and South Vietnam - US)
- Absense of Total War could have been luck
- Legitimises state egoism
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