<P> Theory abhors an explanatory vacuum, and Power Preponderance is filling it . The essence of Power Preponderance is its claim that would - be rivals have strong incentives to accept the status quo of American primacy rather than to attempt to overturn the unipolar order...The argument...distinguishes itself from deterministic claims made by some structural realists that a balance of power is certain to recur...</P> <P> US National Security Strategy of 2002 uses repeatedly the term' balance of power' favoring freedom . The author of the Preponderance of Power...(1992), Melvyn Leffler, was puzzled: A balance of power is linked historically to the evolution of the Westphalian state system and "envisions equilibrium, while the Bush administration yearns for hegemony ." When they invoke the language of power balancing, Bush's advisers obfuscate more than they clarify: </P> <P> Whose power is to be balanced? Today, no nation or group challenges American power...In fact, should the balance of power operate in its classical form, it would trigger countermoves by states seeking to pose a counterweight to America's expressed ambitions . </P> <P> According to Leffler's exegesis, Bush has invoked a balance of power vocabulary in purpose to integrate the tradition with the hegemonic dilemma . British Orwell Prize - winning policy analyst, Anatol Lieven, comments: In this conception, however, a phrase "was a form of Orwellian doublespeak . The clear intention actually was to be so strong that other countries had no choice but to rally to the side of the United States, concentrating all real power and freedom of action in the hands of America ." The surprising rehabilitation of the balance - of - power term in the 2002 NSS "can be accounted for in terms of mythopoetic function that the terminology serves in the document ." It keeps alive the traditional concept in a new unipolar world . </P>

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