“…Levy (2008:1) considers "The central proposition of balance-of-power theory (albeit one that has never been tested systematically) is that great powers balance against hegemonic threats." Others have focused on power as relationships (Lasswell and Kaplan, 1950), power as multidimensional (Waltz, 1979), and power as military force (Art, 1980;Baldwin, 2012). Within this stream of literature, I focus on military power that lends itself to quantification in line with the classic power school (Lasswell and Kaplan, 1950;Mearsheimer, 2001) and focus on the military power of Russia relative to Ukraine and Ukraine's game changers.…”