Sentence examples for a stable balance of from inspiring English sources
These two practised great-power politics in a way Kissinger was to emulate – engagement with great powers of the time to win a stable balance of power.
The Cold War is sometimes remembered as a stable "balance of terror," in which Mutual Assured Destruction (appropriately nicknamed MAD) prevented nuclear war by guaranteeing annihilation for anyone who launched a nuclear strike.
East Asia's political transitions threaten to exacerbate regional challenges, which include the need to institute a stable balance of power and dispense with historical baggage that weighs on interstate relationships.
John Lewis Gaddis, the Yale historian and pre-eminent scholar of the cold war period, calls the last decade or so an "age of regression," meaning that the popular notion of a "unipolar" world — one in which the United States was supposed to have no serious economic or military competitors — gave way to the realization that the best America could aspire to was a stable balance of power.
If anything, [Schelling] suggested, a stable balance of terror could simply be viewed as 'a massive and modern version of an ancient institution: the exchange of hostages'".
Constitutional and national security reform in Japan would help underpin the central goal of America's Asia-Pacific strategy -- a stable balance of power.
While Realpolitik arguments, in particular the argument for the need to co-opt Iran into a stable balance-of-power system in the Middle East, have been central to President Barack Obama's diplomatic opening to Tehran, he has also integrated an element of idealism into his approach, proposing that American "engagement" with Iran would bring about political and economic changes in that country.
Such negative feedback loops help to maintain a stable balance between the secretion of pituitary hormones and the secretion of hormones produced by pituitary target glands.
A bloody but essentially stable balance of power between communities and their foreign backers existed from 2008 to the end of 2011.
Asbridge, however, fails to note that the recent Turkish conquests of Anatolia and southern Syria had shattered the tense but relatively stable balance of power that a somewhat revived Byzantine Empire had gradually developed with earlier Islamic powers over the course of the 10th and early 11th century.
