Balance of Power Stability in International Systems

This book uses the tools of game theory to develop a comprehensive theory of anarchic systems and details both necessary and sufficient conditions for stability. The theory developed refines the classic balance-of-power theory and formally incorporates into that theory the consideration of endogenous resource growth, preventive war, war costs and the imperatives of geography, revealing a fundamental conflict between the concepts of 'balancers' and 'central powers'.Ordeshook, Peter C. is the author of 'Balance of Power Stability in International Systems' with ISBN 9780521374712 and ISBN 0521374715.