Consequently, both theories justify American hegemony, arguing that hegemony does not only serve…, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy, Primacy and its discontents : American power and international stability, Transnational Liberalism and U.S. Primacy, International Relations Theories and the War in the Former Yugoslavia, LEVIATHAN Or the Matter Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, Balances of Power and the Escalation to War of Serious Disputes among the European Great Powers, 1815-1939: Some Evidence, Power, Alliance, and the Escalation of International Conflict,- 1815-1965, Power Parity, Commitment to Change, and War, By clicking accept or continuing to use the site, you agree to the terms outlined in our. and You are currently offline. In the field of theories of international relations, power preponderance theory argues that power preponderance of one country prevents international wars. Logan, Justin 2011. Wohlforth, William C. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. and In his 1940 article, "War, Peace and the Balance of Power", Frederick L. Schuman included a chapter titled "Necessity for Preponderance of Power". In the nuclear age, normative solutions to the problem of anarchy invariably gravitate toward the logic of a world state. Power Preponderance contends that balancing is not occurring because the US has achieved hegemonic domination over the system, making such a policy a losing proposition to any nation that might try it.8 Brooks Published online by Cambridge University Press: URL: /core/journals/review-of-international-studies. Power preponderance theory – like a preponderance of the evidence it means an overwhelming amount of power transition. Usage data cannot currently be displayed. Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, based at the Allen Institute for AI. Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this journal to your organisation's collection. Full text views reflects the number of PDF downloads, PDFs sent to Google Drive, Dropbox and Kindle and HTML full text views. developed a new theory, ‘Power Preponderance’, that provides a deep Realist explanation of unipolarity. In the field of political philosophy, Hobbes’s theory argues in favor of the concentration of power in the hand of a monarch in order to prevent the state of nature. * Views captured on Cambridge Core between