POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Franco-Prussian War, Intentionality, New Approach
2 Apr 2018
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Balance of power and balance of threat: balance of power theory: Balancing joining the weaker side: to curb a potential hegemon, to increase one"s influence within the alliance. Bandwagoning joining the stronger side: to prevent an attach and divert it elsewhere, to share the spoils of victory, balance of threat theory. Alliance formation: what do states respond to: power alone bop, threatening power bot. 3, everything depends on the intentionality affecting the other outcomes: **benign hegemon hegemons by nature are threatening** Power, threat, and the bismarckian system of alliances. Italian and german unification shit in the european balance of power. Prussia de facto leader of small german states, unite them after franco- Prussian war of 1871: bismarck forms an alliance to balance the french (ideological) threat. Conservative regimes want to maintain monarchial rule: didn"t last for long. Clashing interests between austria-hungary and the russian empire in the.
