1. Define as
1.1. Although it doesn´t has a clear definition, power focuses on achieving desired goals and influencing others.
1.1.1. All groups and individuals, posses a different amount of power. States are also divided by their amount of power
1.1.1.1. States are divided on
1.1.1.1.1. Less Powerful
1.1.1.1.2. Powerful
1.1.1.1.3. Weak states
1.1.1.2. States use power to
1.1.1.2.1. Achieve material gains
1.1.1.2.2. Persuado other to conform on an idea
1.1.1.3. States can earn
1.1.1.3.1. More power
1.1.1.3.2. Less power
2. Enforced as
2.1. Smart
2.1.1. The mix of soft and hard, were diplomacy sanctions and agreements, paired up with possible military action, can be used to achieve what is needed. A more sofisticated method of persuasion.
2.1.1.1. Embrace Military force, sanctions
2.2. Soft
2.2.1. When a state uses persuasion and influence to make another state do things, the state that is being enforced, doesn´t always know it is being forced.
2.2.1.1. Embrace outreach, cultural ties
2.2.1.1.1. Faces the challenge to be very volatile and takes a lot of time to take place, so if there is no total trust in the diplomatic process, years used to achieve this, can end in a second.
2.3. Hard
2.3.1. When a state with more power uses coercion to make another state less powerful to do things against their will.
2.3.1.1. Embrace Payment, diplomacy, trade/aid
3. Divided in
3.1. Military power
3.1.1. Used to fight terrorism and insurgency, although it is not always effective.
3.1.1.1. Like the US pouring resources to an abroad war, causing more expenses than benefits.
3.1.2. Essential to be capable of enforcing hard power, to have better weapons and army, the state that can create more chaos, is the one that holds more power.
3.1.2.1. Used in the present more against non-state actors than other states.
3.1.3. Used also on soft power, to being aid to in need people. Troops can carry vaccines and help with development. They also respond to humanitarian disaster.
3.2. Economic power
3.2.1. Measured on Domestic product and economic growth, is the resources of the state when compared.
3.2.1.1. States make economic relationships to balance strenghts and weaknesses.
3.2.2. Used in hard power, when sanctions are imposed, causing the state to probably colapse by inflation or lose the access to resources if there is no cooperation.
3.3. Structural power
3.3.1. Consist on the influence of states to impose in others political, structure ideas.
3.3.1.1. The clearest example is imposition of capitalism in the world, powered by its economic success that attracts less wealthy but ambicious states.
3.4. Relational power
3.4.1. When two states have a relationship, powered by common interests and shared resources. A state imposes an idea in the other taking in advantage the realtionship by using the weaknesses and strenghts of the other state.
3.4.1.1. Threads and rewards: Were states encourage the other to reach the desired goal.
3.4.1.2. Controlling the agenda: Limiting choices of the other state
3.4.1.3. Establishing preferences: Getting the other state to want the same goal.
3.5. Social and cultural power
3.5.1. Brands that have cultural power in the world, can influence how an state or topic is view, reflecting this way of seeing things to a globalize audience.
3.6. Cyber power
3.6.1. The battle of information, were cyber attacks can heavily impact in an state, revealing their secrets or taking advantage of their now virtualize bankings and telecommunications.
3.6.1.1. Social media can also affect on the way an entity is seen by the world, by being able to express ideals without retaliation.
4. Measured as
4.1. A judgement about how powerful or weak a state is and stablish wether a state´s power is increasing or decreasing.
4.1.1. Measured by resources
4.1.1.1. Measuring the size of, for example, armies economies and populations. This way of measuring is criticize because it doesn´t take into account how power is used.
4.1.1.1.1. States may be reluctant or uable to use their resources, or misue it and be defeated by a state that looks weaker.
4.1.2. Measured as behavioural outcomes
4.1.2.1. The practical effect that ststes have when using power. Involves a judgment if hard enforcement has changed the behaviour of the other state positively.
4.1.3. Measured as distribution
4.1.3.1. An indicator of global stability, which allows to predict conflict if inequality is present. From one hand if there is to much power, a state will seek for more in an advantageous posicion, or if it feels that there is a lot in its contrary, conflict for inequality will appear.
4.1.3.1.1. If global power is distributed as unipolar were one has the advantage on power over others and can achieve objectives without challenges or retaliation.
4.1.3.1.2. If global power is distributed as multipolar, where there is equality on power distribution between state and non state groups.
4.1.3.1.3. If global power is distributed as bipolar, were 2 powerful states are in conflict and are reluctant to each other, involving the whole global scene.
5. Has theories of
5.1. Liberalism
5.1.1. Wants international institutions, international law, human rights and global trade.
5.1.2. Where soft power and cooperation are the most effectve way to use power in global politics. States are more powerful when they work together through IGOs.
5.1.2.1. Power should be regulated by a single international law that takes part of every important decision taken in the world.
5.2. Realism
5.2.1. Where power politics is explained as states' hard power capabilities, staes that are locked in competition against each other. States in this theory wants to protect its natural security against other states in an anarchic world order.
5.2.1.1. States pursues offensive realism were they want to expand their global power
5.2.1.2. States pursue defensive realism, where they aim to defend themselves from external powers and mantain the status quo.
5.2.2. .Wants military power, economic sanctions and incentives
6. Transitions as
6.1. States becoming more powerful, by economic growth or military success, or states becoming less powerful by an economic crisis or an unsuccessful conflict.
6.1.1. Rising powers
6.1.1.1. In economic growth, China, India and Brazil experienced it by being part of the "BRIC" countries.
6.1.1.2. Russia experienced a rise of power in 2011, but suffered certain recession on 2014 becuase of santctions imposed after the Ukrane crisis.
6.1.2. Declining powers
6.1.2.1. The United States have been criticize as a declining power, because of their economic recession in 2008 and their military failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as their abstention to violence against non-state terrorist groups.
6.1.2.2. The UK rise questions on their true military power, because of their questionable interventions in 2015.
6.1.3. Power diffusion
6.1.3.1. The increaing power of non-state groups. They have been able to launch attacks, take control of territories and recruit foreign members by online networks. Because they refuse to negotiate, states use military power to fight this growing problematic.
6.1.3.2. Globalization has improved communication, and with it the power increase of this non-state actors. The increase of power has been controled in a way by governments by taking military measures and not giving up to popular pressure.