POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Antonio Gramsci, Charismatic Authority, Noam Chomsky

• School: UBC
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 100
• Professor: Barbara Arneil

Document Summary

Poli 100 - lecture 5 - the state: power, authority and sovereignty. Power: origins: pouvoir" = to be able to, three definitions (d. d raphael): Ability to convince others to do something (soft power: cooperation, diplomacy, negotiations. Ability to force others to do something (hard power: law enforcement, coercive power, state power: a combination of soft and hard power. Different modern theories of state power: conservative/realpolitik view. Power of state necessary to order in anarchic world. Ir realists - hard power defines everything in the relationship states. Skepticism over diplomacy and cooperation: liberal view. Power of the state is dangerous: to be kept in check by rights of citizen and constitution. Ir liberals - soft power is important. All three modern theories see power as a capacity which can be used against citizens in a coercive or repressive manner. The post-modern challenge to modern concepts of power.