In a book titled Elusive [this concept], William Wohlforth re-examined the Cold War in the context of perceptions of this concept. Robert Pape identified “economic strengthening” and “territorial denial” as methods of creating the “soft” form of this concept. According to John Mearsheimer’s The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, the fear of war is highest in multipolar systems without this concept, while multipolar systems with this concept still generate more fear than bipolar systems. Stephen Walt argued that aggression and national security drive foreign policy in a theory named for this concept “of (*) threat.” This concept is often contrasted with bandwagoning, where a state allies with a rising power, in a theory developed by Kenneth Waltz. For 10 points, the theory that states create alliances to prevent a state from growing too strong is known as what concept “of power”? ■END■
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 46 | -5 |
| Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 62 | -5 |
| Joey Sun | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 64 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 95 | 10 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 135 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 140 | 0 |
| Caleb Ott | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 140 | 10 |
| Elijah Mandelbaum | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 140 | 10 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.33 |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 125.33 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.33 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 60% | 127.50 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 140.00 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 67% | 130.80 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 139.00 |