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international relations doctrines of power  

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  • Among the most important foreign policy doctrines since the nineteenth century are balance of power, self-defense, appeasement, containment, détente, and interventionism, doctrines that unfolded in the wake of four wars: the Napoleonic Wars (1799–1815), World War I (1914–1918), World War II (1939–1945), and the cold war. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Doctrines of Power The doctrines of self-defense and balance of power originated in past millennia but found creative practitioners in nineteenth-century Europe. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; International Relations Doctrines of Power]

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