The balance of power: formal perfection and practical flaws

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This article uses a game-theory model to analyze the balance of power mechanism, which occurs when the threat of one country against another is countered by a third country and provides a bulwark against the redistribution of resources in the international system. The author explores the effectiveness of this mechanism, focusing on instances when it fails, asserting that the mechanism is very powerful and can prevent the distribution of resources among great powers and protect even non-members of winning coalitions from losing resources.

Analysis, Management, Usage, Natural resources, Game theory, Balance of power

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Institutional instability and the credibility of audience costs: political participation and interstate crisis bargaining, 1816-1992

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This article examines crisis bargaining among democratic regimes. The author, maintaining democratic regimes tend to be less prone to violence than other governing models, argues political participation helps facilitate crisis bargaining and dispute resolution, along with contiguity, military balance, and years of peace.

Public Administration, Public Participation, Democracy, Political participation

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War after communism: effects on political and economic reform in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia

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This article examines how war affected the political and economic reforms of the post-communist world. The author maintains war has created a distraction from forming a political and economic reform plan, created military disruption which weakened state authority, and was responsible for postwar economic isolation.

Strategy & planning, Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia, Former Soviet Union, Planning, Economic aspects, Wars, War, War economy, Political reform, Company business planning, Post-communism, Economic reform

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