Download or read book Power, Threat, Or Military Capabilities written by Carmel Davis and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses two mainstays of international relations, balance of power and balance of threat, using the case of US balancing against the Soviet Union in the later Cold War. It uses offense-defense theory to argue that countries balance against the ability of others to conquer or compel them.