Space Becomes Explosive
In: The world today, Band 60, Heft 11, S. 27
ISSN: 0043-9134
Sheehan reviews Neither Star Wars nor Sanctuary: Constraining the Military Uses of Space by Michael E. O'Hanlon.
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In: The world today, Band 60, Heft 11, S. 27
ISSN: 0043-9134
Sheehan reviews Neither Star Wars nor Sanctuary: Constraining the Military Uses of Space by Michael E. O'Hanlon.
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ISSN: 0043-9134
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Although, as the quotations above indicate, the question of the importance of the 'balancer' in balance of power systems has generated strong opinions from both critics and proponents, it has never stimulated a specific study of the balancer. The picture of the balancer as it currently exists has to be obtained by abstracting descriptions of the balancer role from general writings on the balance of power. This is unfortunate for even those authors like Padelford and Lincoln who saw the balancer role as critical, failed to devote more then a few paragraphs to the topic. The aim of this paper therefore is to try to clarify the nature and function of the balancer by synthesizing the views of analysts of the role over the past three centuries to produce a paradigm of the balancer strategy.