Randall L. Schweller

TL;DR: The authors argue that if states resist the gains of their neighbors by drawing together to redress the balance, then conquest does not pay and interventions to defend far-flung commitments are not only unnecessary, but often counterproductive in causing local states to unite against the meddling great power and its protege.

TL;DR: In the early 1630s, Charles I concentrated his energies on the construction of a new royal palace at Whitehall as mentioned in this paper, which was to be the fulallment of the king's lifelong dream to replace the sprawling and obsolete palace that he had inherited from the Tudors with one that would match the splendor and majesty of the Louvre or the Escorial.

TL;DR: The emerging transition from unipolarity to a more multipolar distribution of global power presents a unique and unappreciated problem that largely explains why, contrary to the expectations of balance of power theory, a counterbalancing reaction to U.S. primacy has not yet taken place as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, Neorealism's status-quo bias: What security dilemma? Security Studies: Vol 5, No. 5, Realism: Restatements and Renewal, pp. 90-121.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an amended balance-of-power theory that distinguishes great powers by their relative material strength and the value they place on the status quo, which is used to examine and explain the dynamics of tripolar systems; how states respond to threats and opportunities.