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dc.contributor.authorFeng, Huiyun
dc.contributor.authorHe, Kai
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-12T01:35:03Z
dc.date.available2018-10-12T01:35:03Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.isbn9780190228637
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.549
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/371997
dc.description.abstractSoft balancing is a conceptual product of one of the academic debates triggered by unipolarity in world politics. Examination of the soft balancing debate from 2005 to 2016 and critical evaluation of the progress and problems of the soft balancing research program suggest that the significance of the soft balancing debate does not lie in the answers offered by soft balancing scholars. Rather, its significance rests in the question that scholars pose for analysis under unipolarity—the underbalancing phenomenon—and the later endeavor to expand the soft balancing program beyond unipolarity. The future of the soft balancing program depends on continuous scholarly efforts to further clarify the concept of soft balancing, theorize a generalizable model of soft balancing across different cases, as well as demarcate the boundary of soft balancing theory from other research traditions.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleOxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
dc.relation.ispartofchapter98
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto14
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInternational relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440808
dc.titleSoft Balancing
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, School of Government and International Relations
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorHe, Kai
gro.griffith.authorFeng, Huiyun


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