You can review the previous articles from the series:
1- Balance Theory: Introduction.
2- Balance Theory: The First Beginnings.
3- Balance Theory Concept.
4- Graph Theory and Balance.
5- Social Balance Theory.
When we apply Balance Theory to relationships between pairs of nations, our discussion does not contain any conclusions which are not deducible from a simple common-sense postulate of polarity. Such a polarity principle would assert that all nations must be divided into two coalitions in such a way that any two nations in the same coalition are friendly and any two nations from different coalitions are unfriendly.
The author confirms that the following discussions are of a purely scientific nature, as the ideas contained in the following studies reflect the viewpoint of their authors only, and therefore the researcher does not adopt or interfere with any topics or situations that may appear in the following topics. In this section we will talk about four international relations cases of Balance Theory which are: the situation in Egypt (1956), the Hungarian case (1956), the balance between nations in two different periods of time, and the conflict in Syria (2011).
The Situation in Egypt 1956:
In the next paragraphs we will present the Harary (1961) main discussion on the Balance Theory in Suez crisis as he indicates the following: The Suez Canal is an artificial waterway that double passes through Egypt, the length of the canal is (193) km and connects between the Mediterranean and the Red sea, and in July (1956) Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal, which started a series of events that later caused Britain and France, with the participation of Israel to declare the war on Egypt, as part of the so-called tripartite aggression against Egypt, which ended with their withdrawal under international pressure and popular resistance. In the following lines, we will reflect the concepts that we talked about previously about the balance theory and graph theory on the situation in Egypt in 1956, and for this we will use the following abbreviations in the graphs presenting the dynamics of international relations, and also in the accompanying discussion:
(E: Egypt, A: the other Arab countries, B: Great Britain, F: France, I: Israel, D: India, U: USA, R: USSR).
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