The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century: Balance of Power, Balance of Trade. Edited by Antonella Alimento and Koen Stapelbroek.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xii+472. $109.00 (cloth); $84.99 (e-book).

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 669-671
Author(s):  
Sophus A. Reinert
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Power Balance ◽  
Balance Of Trade

scholarly journals Reseña de: Alimento, Antonella & Stapelbroek, Koen (eds.), The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century: Balance of Power, Balance of Trade

2019 ◽  
pp. 385
Author(s):  
Fidel J. Tavárez
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Power Balance ◽  
Balance Of Trade

Reseña de: Alimento, Antonella & Stapelbroek, Koen (eds.), The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century: Balance of Power, Balance of Trade, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2017, 472 pp., ISBN: 978-3-319-53574-6

scholarly journals The Causes of the War of Jenkins' Ear, 1739

1909 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 197-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold W. V. Temperley
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Balance Of Trade ◽  
Exact Amount ◽  
English Colonies

Both Burke and Coxe have said that Jenkins never lost his ear from the stroke of a Spanish ‘cutlash’; a modern historian has shown it to be likely that he did. What, however, is more important than the establishment of this truth is the decision as to the exact amount of influence it had upon producing the war which followed. Jenkins' ear may be said to typify the feelings of the English public in their broad sense, their hatred for the Spaniards as cruel Papists, their insular detestation of the foreigner, and the like. The question is how far did these feelings influence the declaration of war; what were the main motives of the diplomats on either side? Did the English statesmen first truckle to Spain and then to England? The great interest of such an inquiry lies in the fact that the year 1739 was a turning point of history. It was, perhaps, the first of English wars in which the trade interest absolutely predominated, in which the war was waged solely for balance of trade rather than for balance of power. But it is not alone memorable on this account; from this war issued, in a clear and undeviating succession, the series of wars which were waged between England and France during the eighteenth century — wars in which Spain was sometimes a passive spectator, oftener an active enemy, never the friend of England. Spain's alliance with France produced grave complications for England in 1743, contributed to the fall of the greatest of English ministers in 1761, and to the loss of the greatest of English colonies in 1783.

David Hume’s Balancing Act: The Political Discourses and the Sinews of War

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
DANIELLE CHARETTE
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
David Hume ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Balance Of Trade

Both champions and critics of “neorealism” in contemporary international relations misinterpret David Hume as an early spokesman for a universal and scientific balance-of-power theory. This article instead treats Hume’s “Of the Balance of Power,” alongside the other essays in his Political Discourses (1752), as conceptual resources for a historically inflected analysis of state balancing. Hume’s defense of the balance of power cannot be divorced from his critique of commercial warfare in “Of the Balance of Trade” and “Of the Jealousy of Trade.” To better appreciate Hume’s historical and economic approach to foreign policy, this article places Hume in conversation with Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Andrew Fletcher, and Montesquieu. International relations scholars suspicious of static paradigms should reconsider Hume’s genealogy of the balance of power, which differs from the standard liberal and neorealist accounts. Well before International Political Economy developed as a formal subdiscipline, Hume was conceptually treating economics and power politics in tandem.

Malleable Masculinity: Fashioning Male Identity in Teding van Berkhout’s Travel Letters (1739–1741)

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Gerrit Verhoeven
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Male Identity ◽  
Travel Journal

Drawing evidence from the letters and travel journal of Jan Teding van Berkhout—scion of a wealthy regenten family from Delft—this article scrutinizes how elite masculinity and wellevendheid (politeness) were constructed, perceived, experienced, and contested in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic. Berkhout’s correspondence not only hints at some important differences in the Netherlandish and British interpretation of polite masculinity but also evidences that ideas about what a “true man” was and how he should behave could differ substantially within one and the same family. Differences in age, gender, and the unequal balance of power created a set of—coexisting, competing, or clashing—multiple masculinities. Whether masculinity was performed front- or backstage also mattered, as politeness was frequently put on hold and replaced by intimate bawdiness. In fact, the spectrum of masculinities available in Berkhout’s correspondence casts some serious doubt on Connell’s idea of hegemonic masculinity.

The theory of the balance of power in the first half of the eighteenth century: a note on sources

1983 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Black
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Balance Of Power

‘Very often it was no more than a phrase used to inhibit thought. Frequently appealed to, it was seldom analysed in real depth or formulated with genuine rigour. Writers tended to shy away from the questions it raised and the difficulties it involved.’ Professor Anderson's somewhat bleak statement about the eighteenth century use of the theory of the balance of power in international relations relects the tendency of writers concerned to analyse theories of international relations to concentrate on the opinions and writings of prominent intellectuals, eminent jurists, distinguished writers and famous statesmen. It is the intention of this note to draw attention to less eminent sources for eighteenth century views on international relations, and to suggest that far from being constrained by an inhibiting model of international relations, that of the balance of power, interpretations of European developments were aided by the very ambiguity and flexibility of the concept.

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