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IR Notes on Power and Levels of Analysis
IR Notes on Power and Levels of Analysis
Power =
- Ability to affect others to
get the outcomes one wants
- Ability
to get others to do what they wouldn’t otherwise do
*This is
the difference between getting your kids to go outside and play and getting them to clean their room
- Typically realists align with hard power (using force
to get what you want)
Hard power
= military (but this hard power comes in degrees: WAR vs COIN)
Soft power
= material power/ideas
**Power must be addressed/examined in context because each
situation may require different power resources
- Power is a relational concept that must be though
of within BoP context
- BoP can be outcome or policy
- Walt also talks about the “balance of threat”
- Levels of analysis
is a method of categorized events/causes:
System
(neorealists)
Structure
(mechanical metaphors)
Process
(biological metaphors)
State
(liberalists for the most part)
Types
of states (democracies, autocracies)
Traits
of states (nationalism)
Sub-state
Aspects
of states (bureaucratic politics, organizational process)
Disaggregated
sovereignty
Individuals
(constructivists for the most part)
Human
nature (psychological processes)
Particular
people
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