Power; Politics Unit 3:D
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- Created on: 04-11-13 19:32
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- Power
- Power is one state having control over another, through military, cultural, resources, economy, geography, history and political status
- Hard Power
- The use of military or economic power/force in order to exert influence over other political bodies
- This is using military and economic means to influence the behaviour or interests of other political bodies
- examples
- counties who are in need of help are victims of hard power. An example of this would be NATO, as they take military action.
- Economic sanctions are clearly intended to coerce and are thus a form of hard power. Iran is an example of this as they were found developing nuclear weapons.
- Soft Power
- exercising influence without the use of military force, but through idealogies or cultural means.
- Soft power comes from diplomacy,culture and history.
- Examples
- This form of power can be weilded by all actors in international politics such as NGO's or international institutions
- this can be linked to cultural and political globalization. countries also use attraction behaviour such as "Americanisation"
- Super Power
- A state which has considerable influence over international affairs/global politics and has considerable global reach militarily due to possessing nuclear weapons and have a large number of military bases around the world.
- Great Power
- Has significant influence over foreign affairs and global decision making and has military and economic strength
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