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Roundtable 10-29 on Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 By Steve Chan, Kai He, Deborah Welch Larson, Jack S. Levy, Bhubhindar Singh, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, T.V. Paul, Robert Jervis

After the end of the Cold War many scholars thought that other states would balance against the United States since it now lacked a rival superpower to check it, and with the apparent abuse of its power epitomized by the invasion of Iraq in 2003 these expectations were heightened. In parallel, many observers thought that…

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Authors’ Response to Article Review 71 on “Soft Balancing in the Americas: Latin American Opposition to U.S. Intervention, 1898-1936.”

April 17, 2017April 17, 2017 By Max Paul Friedman, Tom Long

We thank Christopher Darnton for his thoughtful and useful critique, and we are in agreement with many of his points. However, Darnton perhaps overstates the goals of our article. Notably, Darnton faults the article for failing to test a “causal explanation of Latin American foreign policy against alternatives.” Our article does not claim to test…

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Article Review 71 on “Soft Balancing in the Americas: Latin American Opposition to U.S. Intervention, 1898-1936.”

March 23, 2017April 17, 2017 By H-Diplo

Max Paul Friedman and Tom Long argue that Latin American foreign policies, particularly those of Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico, constitute a case of ‘soft balancing’ against the United States in the early decades of the twentieth century. Rather than engaging in issue-specific contestation or bilateral negotiations with Washington, Latin American leaders and diplomats focused on…

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