POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hard Power, Economic Globalization, Appeasement
5 Dec 2017
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Hard power: military and economic power; getting others to do what you want. Soft power: attraction; getting others to want the outcomes that you want. The balance of power theory in ir suggests that national security is enhanced when military capability is distributed so that no one state is strong enough strong to dominate all others. This concept is often more useful for policy making than the relational power theory, but it has for example not explained the outcome of the. The different balance of power theories all share the assumption that it is possible to add up the various elements of power, such as economy, population and military to calculate the power distribution. Some states are power-gap minimizer (britain in the 19th century, never made too strong alliances) and others are power-gap maximizer. Offensive realists would argue that states try to manipulate the systemic balance to their favor.
