Balance Of Power Book

BALANCE OF ^ 7L 6C76 BALANCE "D OF rOWER International Politics as the Ultimate Global Game BY CHRIS CRAW FORI) OALANCE Dt) of rOWER International Politics as the Ultimate Global Game BYCHRIS CRAW FORD Illustrations by David Shannon PUBLISHED BY Microsoft Press A Di\ision of Microsoft Coqsoration 16011 N.E. 36th. Box g'l'On Redmond. M^ashington 980:'3-9':'n Cop\Tight © 1986 by Chris Crawford All rights reserved. No part of the contents of this book mav be reproduced or transmitted in anv fonn or by any means without the \vTitten permission of the publisher Librarv of C^ongress Cataloging in Publication Data Crawford. Chris. 1950- Balance of power. Bibliography: p. 1. Balance of power Game — Data 2. International relations processing. 3. Macintosh Computer — Programming. 4. — IBM Personal Computers Programming. I. Title. GVH69.25.B3-tCT3 1986 :'94.8'2 86-18195 ISB.N 0-914845-9"-:' Printed and bound in the United States of .\merica. 2 3 456789 FGFG 8 9 9 8 7 Distributed to the book trade in the United States bv Harper & Row. Distributed to the book trade in Canada bv General Publishing Company. Ltd. Distributed to the book trade outside the United States and Canada by Penguin Books Ltd. Penguin Books Ltd.. Hamiondsworth. Middlesex. England Penguin Books .\ustralia Ltd.. Ring\vood. \ ictoria. .\ustralia Penguin Books N.Z. Ltd.. 182-190 \Xairau Road. Auckland 10. New Zealand British Cataloging in Publication Data available .\pple* is a registered trademark, and .Macintosh"'. MacPaiint™. and NiacWrite"' are trademarks of Apple Computer Incorporated, .\tari* is a registered trademark, and .\tari* 800™ is a trademark of .\tan. Incorporated. Commodore* is a registered trademark, and PET"* is a trademark of Commodore Machines. Incorporated. IBNI* is a registered trademark of International Business .Machines Corporation. Balance of Power™ is a trademark of Mindscape. Incorporated. Oil ^ar is a game pre\-iouslv published bv STL nav,- owned bv TSR. Incorporated. a 'EDICATION To Kathy, my wife... ...and my cast of supporting critters: Betsy. Tom, Sally, Sherrv. Sherlock. Sheeba. Ginger. Lucy. Bunny. Samm):, Sasha. Andy. Kiwi. Velvet, and Flannel. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/balanceofpowerinOOcraw 1 T ABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ix 1 Balance of Power and the Real World 1 2 The AXbnderful AXorld of Insurgency 17 3 Coups d Etat 61 4 Finlandization 101 5 Crises 129 6 The Unincluded Factors 169 7 Strateg) for …