"balance of power" as an emergent phenomenon is entirely fake, protracted peace in multipolar world invariably coordinated agreement between individual men with shared goals, change my mind
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but based on reading both of these assumptions seem completely wrong. rather than an emergent property of states, the few times a "balance" seems to persist...
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...are compacts between particular *men* with particular shared aims, and once those men exit the stage, or come to distrust each other, the whole thing falls apart
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and aside for these individual (one might say gentleman's) agreements, a multipolar world is constantly getting into and out of wars
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