"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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the reality seems to be that because participants inevitably arrive at different assessments of relative power, and participants all want to maximize their position...
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...the result is constant jockeying for position whether through internal improvement or external conflict up to and including war
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the concert of europe and holy alliance were less individual actors asserting their interests against each other than a supra-national attempt for the old orders to preserve their societies against revolution
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and the reason for the (relative) peace in europe proper between 1815 and 1914 was because conflict shifted elsewhere. great game, eastern question, scramble for africa etc
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