How do YOU define the balance of power (saving you a response)?
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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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I just realised that your very first tweet had a major grammatical error / abbreviation that may have led in the complete wrong direction on what you believe. Is it your position that geopolitics is dynamic and there is no balance/equilibrium at all?
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oh, yea basically. afaict the commonly cited examples of "balance" working are really just particular individuals earnestly motivated to cooperate against greater threats
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and otherwise multipolarity results in constant conflict as various powers attempt to balance or bandwagon to maximize their own positions
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