POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fungibility, Hard Power, Moral Authority
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)t"s both seemingly easy to define and used frequently in common language. Power is a core concept in political science, not just ir. [states vs. non-state actors] power is commonly associated with (1) states and (2) their military capacity to presuppose a lot of theoretical baggage: from this isis might be considered powerless, yet they have presented serious challenges to states. [states/ios vs. ngos: msf has invented a medical protocol where states and ios were unable to do so. It both defined the problem, planned a response, and enacted the prescription. Human community + monopoly of legitimate use of physical force + territory. Sovereignty conferring body: the limit to aggregated authority; no higher authoritative entity, states are sovereign by definition. Attributive (power as a set of capacities/abilities) Qatar/luxembourg rise to the top; production vs. purchasing power: evaluating (cid:498)capacity(cid:499) is not straightforward, what of cyber-security, environmental performance,