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Firist: Please write a three pages as a reaction memo about the reading. please no summery instead try to make critical analysis, see what the connection between the reading pick three or four reading or maybe more as you like but not less than 3

Second: come up with two questions from any reading and write them in the head of the paper. if you want you can answer one of the questions in the memo if not you do not have to just write the two question in the head of the paper then do the memo.

please no using for AI or Grammarly or other stuff like that at all

the course is international security

The reading of the week is: 

The Balance of Power (I): Theory and Cases

Classical Books

**Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics (McGraw-Hill, 1979), pp. 79-128.

John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Norton, 2001), pp. 138-167. Chapter 2

Historical Examples

Harrison Wagner, “What Was Bipolarity?” IO 47 (winter 1993), pp. 77-106. 

William C. Wohlforth et al., “Testing Balance-of-Power Theory in World History,” EJIR 13:2 (2007), pp. 155-185.

Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson, “Balancing on Land and at Sea,” IS 35:1 (summer 2010), pp. 7-43.

New Scholarship

Daniel H. Nexon, “The Balance of Power in the Balance” [review essay], WP 61:2 (April    

  2009), pp. 330-359.

Stacie E. Goddard, “When Right Makes Might: How Prussia’s Rhetoric Overturned the Balance of Power,” IS 33:3 (winter 2008/2009), 110-142.

Steven E. Lobell. “A granular theory of balancing.” International Studies Quarterly 62.3