Balance of Power in the Nuclear Age by Rikhi Jaipal; Allied Publishers Limited, Bombay, 1989; pp 208, Rs 125. THE concept of balance of power evolved in Europe in the 18th century to prevent the domination of other nation-states by one great power. Essentially a strategy of the big powers, it did not preclude conflict among smaller states.
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