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balance of power

  1. a distribution of military and economic power among nations that is sufficiently even to keep any one of them from being too strong or dangerous
  2. the power of a minority to give control to a larger group by allying with it

See balance of power in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
Distribution of power in which no single nation is able to dominate or interfere with others.

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