"Action by a state to keep its neighbours from becoming too strong...because the aggrandisement of one nation beyond a certain limit changes the general system of all the other neighbours...attention to the maintenance of a kind of equality and equilibrium between neighbouring states."
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François Fénelon, quoted in Michael Sheehan, The Balance Of Power: History & Theory (1996), p. 2
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