The Balance of Power: Stability in International Systems

by Peter C. Ordeshook

Book Overview

One of the fundamental issues of international relations concerns whether, and under what conditions, stability prevails in anarchic systems--systems in which all authority and institutional restraints to action are wholly endogenous. This book uses the tools provided by contemporary game theory to develop a comprehensive theory of such systems and details both necessary and sufficient conditions for stability. The authors first define two forms of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521376157
• ISBN13: 9780521376150
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"