• this does not mean legal inequality states
• but we have we have 2
• we have st of all Holland then Spain and Portugal then GB the United States —> these great powers rise and rise and become powerful
• they become too powerful to be challenged by other members of the intl. system
• —> either new stage-> by rising as a competitor or this power will become so powerful that other states will build checks and balances of this power
• the power of this strength of this
power was tied to decline • But although its power will decline it does not mean that it will easily give up the leadership
• it will try to challenge this consortium
• And then the our existing order will break with a systemic war
• —> then anew great power —>
our cycle • in international politics until the end of the 20th century : the Dutch then we have the Spanish, the Portuguese era with the Mercantilist intl. politic
• then in the 19th century British era ending by the end of the First World War
• British did fix -> anew bipolarity which led to alack
of war between great powers • balance of power works well in the sense that it keeps the state system as it is its keepss the anarchical intl.scoiety
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