Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Party System, Liberal International, Richard N. Haass
19 Dec 2016
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Military dimension: still important, not always usable, sometimes counterproductive. Economic dimension: supports military power, fits era of interdependence. Soft power: co-optation rather than coercion, via culture and value legitimacy. Structural power: power over proves, via regimes and institutions. International system: like party system, pattern of interactions with causal impact. A pole: has an exceptionally large share of the major power resources. A single state has greatly disproportionate share of power. Ca(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a si(cid:374)glular po(cid:449)er: bipolarity. Fight, but against two unstable ebecause they use others to fight as well: multipolarity: Lots of unpredictability (cid:449)ho"s sidi(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith (cid:449)ho but there is no concentration of power. Changing international systems: 15th-19th centuries multipolarity in euope, balanching, frequent wats, wwii-1991 bipolarity, with usa and ussr as superpowers with global interests, global reach. Loss of (cid:862)soft po(cid:449)er(cid:863) i(cid:374) gw bush era. Imperial-over reach iraq war: rise of the rest: brics brazil, russia, india, china, with globalizations, economics trumps arms, dominant power always hard to sustain.
