UNANSWERED THREATS

POLITICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE BALANCE OF POWER

By RANDALL L SCHW

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Why have states throughout history regularly underestimated dangers to their survival? Why have some states been able to mobilize their material resources effectively to balance against threats, while others have not been able to do so? The phenomenon of "under balancing" is a common but woefully under examined behavior in international politics. Under balancing occurs when states fail to recognize dangerous threats, choose not to react to them, or respond in paltry and imprudent ways. It is a response that directly contradicts the core prediction of structural realism's balance-of-power theory--that states motivated to survive as autonomous entities are coherent actors that, when confronted by dangerous threats, act to restore the disrupted balance by creating alliances or increasing their military capabilities, or, in some cases, a combination of both.

Consistent with the new wave of neoclassical realist research, Unanswered Threats offers a theory of under balancing based on four domestic-level variables--elite consensus, elite cohesion, social cohesion, and regime/government vulnerability--that channel, mediate, and redirect policy responses to external pressures and incentives. The theory yields five causal schemes for under balancing behavior, which are tested against the cases of interwar Britain and France, France from 1877 to 1913, and the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) that pitted tiny Paraguay against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.

Randall Schweller concludes that those most likely to under balance are incoherent, fragmented states whose elites are constrained by political considerations.

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Book Details

ISBN: 0691124256
Categories:
All Products, Non Fiction, Politics and International Relations
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 2006
Number of Pages: 182
Author:
RANDALL L SCHW
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Language: English
Weight: 0.46 g

About the Author

Randall L. Schweller is Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. Schweller’s research focuses on theories of world politics, international security, and strategic studies. He is the author of Deadly imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler’s Strategy of World Conquest, as well as many articles in journals such as World Politics, international Studies Quarterly, international Security, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Review of International Studies, and Security Studies. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the journal international Security (Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University). In 1993, he received a John M. Olin Post-Doctoral Fellowship in National Security at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.