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Taming American Power
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“From the vantage point of structural realism, the US decision to topple Hussein reconfigured the distribution of power, removing a critical regional balancer against Iran and inadvertently intensifying the region's polarity (Walt 1990, Walt 2005;Mearsheimer 2001).”
From The Changing Power and Security Dynamics in the Middle East (2025) · cites this paper as Walt 2005
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Metadata
- Authors
- Walt, S. M.
- Corresponding author
- Walt, Stephen M.
- Venue
- Foreign Affairs
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 2005
- Volume
- 84
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 105
- ISSN
- 0015-7120 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2551195116
- Cited by
- 282
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 28 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 18 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 102.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Foreign Affairs (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Leadership, Human Resources, Global Affairs
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Defense, Military, and Policy Studies
- Keywords
- American power, US foreign policy, great power balance, international order, hegemony
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