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International relations

a state's failure to balance against a rising threat as realist theory predicts, explained by fragmentation among domestic elites and society.

In international relations, underbalancing refers to a state's failure to balance against a rising threat as realist theory predicts, explained by fragmentation among domestic elites and society. This meaning comes from Schweller (2004) in International Security.[1]

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References

Schweller, R. L. (2004). Unanswered Threats: A Neoclassical Realist Theory of Underbalancing. International Security, 29(2), 159-201. https://doi.org/10.1162/0162288042879913

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