Topic: The pecularities of balance of power in international politics

Silk Road International University of tourism and Cultural Heritage

• Group: Hotel Management-19
• Former Double Degree (China)
• Made by: Bekhruz Aliev ID: 0436
• Rustam Tulabaev ID: 0448

Contents

• Concept of the balance of power policy
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• 1.1 Foreign policy and international politics
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• The significance of the balance of power in international politics
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• The contemporary world and balance of power policy
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• Particularities of balance of power in modern world politics
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• The role of balance of power in the formation of a new world order
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• Conclusion

Introduction

• The theory of balance of power has been a central concept in the theory and practice of international relations all over the history of states. It is considered to be indispensable to peace, stability and security.
• An equilibrium between the various powers which form the family of nations is, in fact, indispensable to the very existence of any internatonal order.

Reasons for the tendency of balance of power

• There is a possibility, and perhaps a natural tendency, for some states to seek regional or even global hegemony.
• Other states will seek to prevent hegemony by strengthening themselves or entering anti-hegemonic alliances with other threatened states.
• Therefore, the balance of power constitutes over the bulk of relations among nations.

Foreign policy and international politics

• A foreign policy consists of self - interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve its goals within international relations . A foreign policy seeks either to keep power, to increase power, or to demonstrate power.

International politics

• International politics is a branch of Politics dealing with interactions between actors “typically states” in the international system.
• International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. Whatever the ultimate aims of international politics the highest aim is always power

The significance of the balance of power in international politics

• It is obvious that a balance of power policy is in the first place a policy for the great powers.
• Doubtlessly, great powers always pursue their interests and secure their self – existence by preserving the balance not against close dominant neighbors but against all powerful ones as a whole throughout the world

Particularities of balance of power in modern world politics

• Each nation has its own national interests. They have some common ones. Somehow most of their interests completely differ from others’. They clash in the international arena. They need a balance of power policy in order to preserve self – existence.
• The balancing process can be carried on either by diminishing the weight of the heavier scale or by increasing the weight of the lighter one. serve stability within the system.

The role of balance of power in the formation of a new world order

• The term "new world order" has been used to refer to any new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power. Despite various interpretations of this term, it is primarily associated with the ideological notion of global governance only in the sense of new collective efforts to identify, understand, or address worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual nation-states to solve.

Henry Kissinger

• New World order will be based on the principles of Westphalia system and “balance of power” in a global scale

• The concept that has underpinned the modern geopolitical era is in crisis
• Henry Kissinger
• The Wall Street Journal, 29/08/2014

Henry Kissinger

• Great Britain eloborated the concept of “balance of power in the eighteenth century, which dominated European diplomacy for the next 200 years

• Diplomacy, 1994 p 17

Conclusion

• The policy of balance of power is never absolute. When one state is more powerful than others in a field. The others are relatively powerful in a second field. This typical discrepancy constitutes over the bulk of the balance of power.
• Nations run into military confrontations less often in the balance of power.