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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197645024.003.0012
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AbstractChapter 12 conveys structural realism. Structural realism focuses on how the distribution of capabilities at the level of the international system impacts its propensity for conflict. States face a situation of self-help and can be expected to engage in power balancing for their own protection. The principal idea about war put forward by structural realism is that bipolarity is better than multipolarity. A system with two leading states, as opposed to three or more, will be less prone to break down into highly destructive conflict. Under bipolarity, the two leading states can be expected to match and monitor the efforts of each other. Thus war becomes less likely than in the relatively more chaotic world of multipolarity. Two structural realist theories are identified: an initial version and one that focuses on hegemonic stability.
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