POLI 244 FINAL STUDY GUIDE 4 READINGS LECTURE - LECTURE (10/11/17) • Today we are going to talk about polarity and the stability of international systems, this is sort of a continuation of the balance of power that we talked about last week. And we are going to consider an alternative theory to the balance of power, so a competitor to the balance of power theory, also another realist theory, which is called the theory of hegemonic war, Gilpin's theory of systemic change, sometimes it...