Games nations play: Analyzing international politics by John Spanier

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Second, emphasis on the balance of power as the principal variable explaining a state's conduct suggests that domestic " William J. Newman, The Balance of Power in the Interwar Years, 1919-1939 (New York: Random House, 1968); Arnold Wolfers, Britain and France between Two Wars (New York: Norton, 1966); and Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, I. The Gathering Storm (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948), p. 90. 17 APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 18 factors, like a state's political complexion, economic organization, social structure, and public opinion, have no noticeable impact on policy.

And Juliette L. George, Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: A Personality Study (New York: Dover, 1964); and the study of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Ole R. , eds.. Enemies in Politics (Chicago: Rand-McXally, 1967), pp. 25-96. 18 Harold and Margaret Sprout, The Ecological Perspective on Human Affairs (Princeton: Princeton Universih Press, 1965), pp. 28-30. 27 APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 28 Prime Minister Chamberlain thus not only shared the general British desire in the 1930s to avoid another total war but thought that his policy of appeasing Hitler's demands would achieve that end.

Spykman, America's Strategy in World Politics: The United States and the Balance of Power (New York, Harcourt, 1942), p. 21. For a more extensive discussion of the various ways in which the term "balance of power" is used by analysts, see Ernst B. Haas, "The Balance of Power: Prescription, Concept, or Propaganda," World Politics, July 1953, pp. 442-477; and Inis L. , Power and International Relations (Sew York: Random House, 1962), pp. 11-39. 4 11 APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 12 to the western front raised the distinct possibility of a German victory.

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