Inquiry Question

Question: how has balance of power affected history?
The novel: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

So the balancing of power through out history of mankind has affected how the world is shaped today. However the balance of power system in put in to affect when two or more countries are in competition- for example the cold war where the U.S and Russia where competing of who had the biggest and strongest army, also who had the most nuclear weapons. This system also gets put into affect when certain areas are put under control of a country.