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Summary. The balance of power—a notoriously slippery, murky, and protean term, endlessly debated and variously defined—is the core theory of international politics within the realist perspective. A “balance of power” system is one in which the power held and exercised by states within the system is checked and balanced by the power of ...
Jan 1, 2009 · Pre-copyedited version of a chapter in S. Clegg and M. Haugaard, eds, The SAGE. Handbook of Power, London: SAGE, 367-382. The state and state power are hype rcomplex and changeable phenomena and ...
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11.1 INTRODUCTION. As mentioned before, one of the ways of studying political science is to study the state in all its varied manifestations. But the word state has often been used indiscriminately to express a general tendency or an idea like the “state” of a man’s health, of his mind or of his economic conditions.
Max Weber‘ definition of the state as a human community that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory (Weber, 1946) is widely used in the ...
Moreover, this interrelation of power and politics has become self-conscious in present-day world politics. The last decades of the 20th century have witnessed a double movement in the practitioners’ understanding of power. On the one hand, the contemporary agenda of international politics has exploded.
THE CONCEPT OF «POWER» IN POLITICAL SCIENCE. Tacitly or explicitly, political scientists since Machiavelli and before have based their political theories upon the concept of « power ». The modern national state measures its strength in terms of its power, which is essentially military power in the « final analysis ». The theory of the.
measure the power of a state, but power is often measured in terms of its elements. Some elements of power are tanable like the size of the territory, topography and its location; population of a state; the size of the armed forces; and possession of natural resources. There are a number of intangible elements also that determine power.
