{"title":"Rome et la troisième guerre punique : unipolarité méditerranéenne et dilemme de sécurité au IIe siècle a.C.","authors":"P. Brisson","doi":"10.4000/mefra.6980","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"EnglishRome and the Third Punic War: Mediterranean unipolarity and security dilemma in the second century BC. This article proposes a reinterpretation of the causes of the Third Punic War (149-146 BC), using contemporary theories of international relations. Based on the work of N.P. Monteiro, we shall consider the Hellenistic Mediterranean world, in the years after the treaty of Apamea (188 BC), as a unipolar system, dominated by Rome. By resorting to the theories of unipolarity, we shall circumscribe the structural dynamics that may have influenced the Senate of Carthage to go to war against Numidia, as well as the Roman Senate to intervene in North Africa in order to maintain its unipolar power status. francaisCet article propose une reinterpretation des causes du declenchement de la troisieme guerre punique (149-146 a.C.), en recourant aux theories neorealistes developpees dans le champ des relations internationales contemporaines. En nous appuyant sur les travaux du politologue americain N.P. Monteiro, nous serons amene a considerer le monde mediterraneen hellenistique, au lendemain de la paix d’Apamee (188 a.C.), comme un systeme international unipolaire, domine par Rome. Par le recours a la theorie de l’unipolarite, nous en viendrons a circonscrire les dynamiques systemiques qui ont pu influencer le Senat de Carthage a se lancer en guerre contre la Numidie de Massinissa, de meme que le Senat romain a intervenir militairement en Afrique du Nord, au moment ou s’ouvrait une nouvelle periode de troubles a l’echelle du monde mediterraneen.","PeriodicalId":38632,"journal":{"name":"Melanges de l''Ecole Francaise de Rome:Antiquite","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Melanges de l''Ecole Francaise de Rome:Antiquite","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4000/mefra.6980","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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EnglishRome and the Third Punic War: Mediterranean unipolarity and security dilemma in the second century BC. This article proposes a reinterpretation of the causes of the Third Punic War (149-146 BC), using contemporary theories of international relations. Based on the work of N.P. Monteiro, we shall consider the Hellenistic Mediterranean world, in the years after the treaty of Apamea (188 BC), as a unipolar system, dominated by Rome. By resorting to the theories of unipolarity, we shall circumscribe the structural dynamics that may have influenced the Senate of Carthage to go to war against Numidia, as well as the Roman Senate to intervene in North Africa in order to maintain its unipolar power status. francaisCet article propose une reinterpretation des causes du declenchement de la troisieme guerre punique (149-146 a.C.), en recourant aux theories neorealistes developpees dans le champ des relations internationales contemporaines. En nous appuyant sur les travaux du politologue americain N.P. Monteiro, nous serons amene a considerer le monde mediterraneen hellenistique, au lendemain de la paix d’Apamee (188 a.C.), comme un systeme international unipolaire, domine par Rome. Par le recours a la theorie de l’unipolarite, nous en viendrons a circonscrire les dynamiques systemiques qui ont pu influencer le Senat de Carthage a se lancer en guerre contre la Numidie de Massinissa, de meme que le Senat romain a intervenir militairement en Afrique du Nord, au moment ou s’ouvrait une nouvelle periode de troubles a l’echelle du monde mediterraneen.