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 (Stableford 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 (board game), a board game published by Hasbro in 1979
  • Balance of Power (play-by-mail game)
  • Balance of Power (Ab Hugh novel), a 1994 novel from the Star Trek universe by Dafydd Ab Hugh
  • Balance of Power (video game), 1985
  • Balance of Power: The 1990 Edition

See also

  • Power Balance, a brand of hologram bracelets
  • Checks and balances, a model of governance characterized by a separation of powers among branches of government
  • Mixed government, a constitution compromising between several forms of state, balancing social forces by sharing sovereignty between them
  • Consociationalism, a form of government involving guaranteed group representation
  • Balance of terror
  • Balance of threat