title: Balance of power
text: # Balance of power
  
  Balance of power may refer to:
  
  ## Politics and international relations
  
  * Balance of power (international relations), parity or stability between competing forces
  * Balance of power (federalism), distribution of power between a central government and its subnational governments
  * Balance of power (parliament), power exercised by a minor political party whose support enables a minority government to obtain office
  * European balance of power, European international relations before the First World War
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * Balance of Power (album), by Electric Light Orchestra, 1986
  * Balance of Power (band), a British melodic progressive metal group formed in 1995
  * Balance of Power (novel), by Brian Stableford, 1979
  * "Balance of Power" (Red Dwarf), a 1988 TV episode
  * "The Balance of Power" (Minder), a 1984 TV episode
  * Balance of Power (play-by-mail game)
  * Balance of Power (Star Trek), a 1994 novel by Dafydd Ab Hugh
  * Balance of Power (video game), 1985
     * Balance of Power: The 1990 Edition
  