Domestic and international politics are but two different manifestation of the same phenomenon: the struggle for power
All politics, domestic and international, reveals three basic patterns:引自 第四章 寻求权力的斗争之现状政策 Policy of Status quo
policy seeks either to keep power, to increase power, or to demonstrate power. correspondingly, there are three types of international policies as followed:
1) a policy of status quo, by which a nation's foreign policy tends toward keeping power and not changing the distribution of power.
2) policy of imperialism: a nation whose foreign policy aims at acquiring more power than it actually has, through a reversal of existing power relations-whose foreign policy, in other words, seeks a favourable change in power status.
3) a policy of prestige: a nation whose foreign policy seeks to demonstrate the power it has, either for the purpose of maintaining or increasing it.
Definition of Status Quo
1) derived from status quo ant Dellum, a diplomatic term referring to the usual clause in peace treaties that provide for the evacuation of territory by enemy troops and its restoration t the prewar sovereignty.
2) aims at the maintenance of the distribution of power that exists at a particular history moment.
One misconception about Status Quo
A policy of status quo does not mean that the policy is necessarily oppose to any change.
while it is not opposed to change as such, it is opposed to any change that would amount to a reversal of the power realties among two or more nations, reducing, for instance, A from a first-rate to a second-rate power and raising B to the eminent positionA formerly held.引自 第四章 寻求权力的斗争之现状政策 Policy of Status quo
we divined the imperialism as a policy that aims at the overthrow of the status quo, at a reversal of the power relations between two or more nations. A policy seeking only adjustment, leaving the essence of there power relations intact, still operate within the general framework of policy of the status quo. 引自 第五章：帝国主义
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Not every foreign policy aiming at the preservation of an empire that already exists is imperialism引自 第五章：帝国主义
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All economic explanation of imperialism, the refined as well as the primitive, fail the test of historical experience.引自 第五章：帝国主义
the policy of imperialism pursued by the victor in anticipation of his victory is likely to call forth a policy of imperialism on the part of the vanquished. If he is not forever ruined or else won over to the cause of the victor, the vanquished will want regain what he has lost and, if possible, gain more引自 第五章：帝国主义
