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Definition of Balance of power
1. Noun. An equilibrium of power between nations.
Definition of Balance of power
1. Noun. (context: politics government) A situation of equilibrium in which no country is powerful enough to control, or threaten the interests of the others. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balance Of Power
Literary usage of Balance of power
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The object of the balance of power, rightly understood, ¡я not to cany on war
... Gentz defines the balance of power as " a constitution subsisting between ..."
2. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1901)
"It destroyed what was then called the balance of power between the North and the
South. It stirred up the Federal press of New England to clamor for a ..."
3. The Principles of International Law by Thomas Joseph Lawrence (1910)
"The significance attached to the theory of a balance of power has varied from
time to ... To preserve the balance of power, states kept up standing armies,1 ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"THE idea of striking a balance of power in Asia, whether political or military,
depends upon such irregular and varied weights that it cannot be grasped ..."
5. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"balance of power. By this term, in public law, is understood an organization
intended to effect among nations forming part of one system, ..."
6. The History and Nature of International Relations by Edmund Aloysius Walsh, Stephen Pierce Duggan (1922)
"We would have had the theory and practice of the balance of power in this ...
THE balance of power ITS NATURE AND APPLICATION If the world consisted of but ..."
7. The Law of Nations Considered as Independent Political Communities by Travers Twiss (1861)
"25 The maintenance of the Balance of Power in Europe is expressly set forth in
the Acts of Renunciation to the Crown of Spain executed by the French Princes ..."
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