Download or read book Beyond the Balance of Power written by Peter Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major study of French foreign and security policy in the era of the Great War. Peter Jackson examines the interplay between contending conceptions of security based on traditional practices of power politics and the new internationalist doctrines that emerged in the late nineteenth century.