SOCI 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Leading Edge, Hegemonic Stability Theory, Napoleonic Wars
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The idea is that balance of power is likely to provide measure to war. The structure of international communities is anarchic. Offshoot of realism: idea of a concert of great powers the moment after the napoleonic war, all the powers got together except france and made a deal to never allow revolution to occur within europe again. This sense of sharing diminution of anarchy has real consequences. Nasty consequence: 1848 no problem for vienna to call russian troops into hungary land to put down a revolution rising. Belgium is created as a new state by agreement/there was no fighting about this. This is a subset of realism as it is state calculation that matters, it diminishes anarchy. There are meetings of the great powers in 1890 that britain soon leaves and wants to allow latin. Therefore, they won"t allow order to be placed here.
