SA 2 Flashcards
connotes capacity or capability to
impose a desired outcome.
Power
“Perpetual and restless desire for power
after power, that ceaseth only in death.”
Thomas Hobbes’ famous evocation of
mankind’s:
absence of any effective
supranational authority.
Power in the Int’l Level
emphasize the primacy of national security.
Modern policy analysis
capacity to coerce, both
the threat of and resort to armed force, or
various forms of intimidation.
Hard Power
Name Immanuel Wallerstein’s Constituents of
Power
- mercantilism
- military power
- public finance
- effective bureaucracy
- hegemonic bloc
defined as compensation and prestige,
principle or goal of balance of power itself.
“Rules of the Game” by Paul Schroeder
ability to obtain preferred
outcomes by attraction rather than coercion
or payment.
Soft Power
Susan Strange’s Structural Model of
Power four sectors
- productive
- fiscal
- military
- informational.
DIME
Diplomatic, Informational, Military,
and Economic power
DIMEFIL
Diplomatic, Informational,
Military, Economic, Financial, Intelligence,
and Law Enforcement
MIDLIFE
Military, Intelligence, Diplomacy,
Legal, Information, Financial, and Economic
power.
How to measure State Power?
- power-in-being
- power converted through national
processes
3.power in outcomes
