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Realists do not deny existence and necessity of a regulating mechanism at the center of an anarchical environment full of powerseeker, rational and amoral actors. This mechanism, called as “balance of power”, creates a kind of order and constitutes, as mentioned above, the distinction between anarchy and chaos. According to Morgenthau, “the aspiration for power on the part of several nations, each trying either to maintain or overthrow the status quo, leads of necessity to a configuration that is called the balance of power and to policies that aim at preserving it” (Morgenthau, 2006: 281). The idea of balance is a longstanding part of international politics and as a practice, it can be seen in ancient Greece. Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, without naming the concept, draws a picture of a bipolar system revolving around Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 2012: 59).