POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: International Relations, High Culture, Moral Authority
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Power what power is in ir and who possesses it. In ir, power is well de ned; not by a clear, universally accepted de nition but by how many people have clear ideas on what power is. Un membership; who recognizes a nation as a state and who doesn"t. Note the differences between internal and external sovereignty. Internal sovereignty = control over the monopoly of force within a state"s territories. External sovereignty = well-de ned borders and government capable of interacting with other states: with sovereignty, all states are (theoretically) equal in status and thus gives states power in global politics. Generally speaking, power can be put in one of two categories: relational. When actor a can get actor b to do what b would otherwise not do, by coercion, persuasion and/or agenda-setting. Essentially power over another actor: attributive. Actor a gets what it wants through its capacity to perform.
