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Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power
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In this article, the balance of power and the puzzle of underbalancing behavior is discussed, and a theory of Underbalancing is proposed to explain state coherence and expansion in the Age of Mass Politics.Abstract:
List of Illustrations ix Preface xi INTORDUCTION: Balance of Power and the Puzzle of Underbalancing Behavior 1 CHAPTER ONE: Prudence in Managing Changes in the Balance of Power 22 CHAPTER TWO: A Theory of Underbalancing: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation 46 CHAPTER THREE: Great-Power Case Studies: Interwar France and B Bitain, and France, 1877-1913 69 CHAPTER FOUR: Small-Power Case Studies: Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870 85 CHAPTER FIVE: Why Are States So Timid? State Coherence and Expansion in the Age of Mass Politics 103 Notes 131 Bibliography 153 Index 165read more
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All International Politics is Local: The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization
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Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism
Abstract: In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of empire building: how people at home imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo. Contrary to the conventional assumption that a few army officers and bureaucrats were responsible for Japan's overseas expansion, Young finds that a variety of organizations helped to mobilize popular support for Manchukuo--the mass media, the academy, chambers of commerce, women's organizations, youth groups, and agricultural cooperatives--leading to broad-based support among diverse groups of Japanese. As the empire was being built in China, Young shows, an imagined Manchukuo was emerging at home, constructed of visions of a defensive lifeline, a developing economy, and a settler's paradise.