Balancing in unipolarity: who is afraid of balance of power
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https://doi.org/10.36311/2237-7743.2018.v7n3.04.p494Palavras-chave:
unipolarity, balance of power, balancingResumo
Through a critical bias, this article aims to analyze the implications of unipolarity for balancing behavior. In order to do so, it discusses the dynamics of balance of power theory, assumed to be inoperative in the post-Cold War period by main academic debates over unipolarity: i) unipolar stability; ii) balance of threats; iii) soft balancing; iv) liberal institutionalism. We argue that these approaches, including the unipolar illusion view, tied to the balance of power theory, overestimate the effects of unipolarity on balancing behavior of other states. In this sense, we assume here that issues related to the unipolar moment are directly connected to discussions on hegemonic interregnum. Concluding that balance of power dynamics, especially those of hard balancing, are still observed in the post-Cold War era, we criticize two main conclusions from the literature: i) that balancing became inoperative and; ii) that the only available strategies to other states are soft balancing and bandwagoning. In sum, this conclusion has directly implication on strategies available both to the United States and to its main competitors.
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Recebido em: Agosto/2018.
Aprovado: Setembro/2018.
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Stuenkel, Oliver. 2016. Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Taliaferro, Jeffrey W. 2009. Neoclassical realism and resource extraction: State building for future war. In: Taliaferro, Jeffrey W.; Ripsman, Norrin M.; Lobell, Steven E. (eds.). Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Waltz, Kenneth N. 2000. Structural Realism after the Cold War. International Security, v. 25, n. 1, p. 5-41.
Wendt, Alexander E. 1987. The agent-structure problem in international relations theory. International Organization, v. 41, n. 3, p. 335-370.
Wohlforth, William C. 1999. The Stability of a Unipolar World. International Security, v. 24, n. 1, p. 5-41.
Woolf, Amy F. 2018. Conventional Prompt Global Strike and Long-Range Ballistic Missiles: Background and Issues. CRS Report. Congressional Research Service.
Zakaria, Fareed. 2008. The Post-American World. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Recebido em: Agosto/2018.
Aprovado: Setembro/2018.
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DALL'AGNOL, Augusto César. Balancing in unipolarity: who is afraid of balance of power. Brazilian Journal of International Relations, Marília, SP, v. 7, n. 3, p. 494–515, 2018. DOI: 10.36311/2237-7743.2018.v7n3.04.p494. Disponível em: https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/bjir/article/view/8107.. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.
